The emotional life of contemporary public memorials : towards a theory of temporary memorials / Erika Doss.

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Doss, Erika, 1956-

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9789048503407
904850340X
1281988421
9781281988423
9786611988425
6611988424

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Contents:

Preliminaries -- Things Matter -- Public Grief -- Mourning Codes -- Death Matters -- Memory and Public Feeling -- Conclusion -- Notes.

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Summary: From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling.

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"This text is a revised version of a lecture given at Meertens Instituut on March 30, 2006"--Page 43.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-52).

From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling.

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Preliminaries -- Things Matter -- Public Grief -- Mourning Codes -- Death Matters -- Memory and Public Feeling -- Conclusion -- Notes.

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