The Disappearance of the Dead From Real ...
Document type :
Partie d'ouvrage
Title :
The Disappearance of the Dead From Real and Imaginary Epitaphs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England
Author(s) :
Dutoit, Thomas [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Scientific editor(s) :
Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter
Book title :
Les pierres de l'offrande. Autour de l'oeuvre de Christoph W. Clairmont
Publisher :
Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie
Publication place :
Zurich, Switzerland
Publication date :
2003
ISBN :
3-905083-19-1
English keyword(s) :
Disappearance
Elegy
English history
Poetry of 17th and 18th century
Epitaphs
Elegy
English history
Poetry of 17th and 18th century
Epitaphs
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures
English abstract : [en]
This article pinpoints the decisive moment of the two hundred year "life" of the poetic genre of the epitaph, with the context both of funerary monuments and social history in England. By following the history of epitaphic ...
Show more >This article pinpoints the decisive moment of the two hundred year "life" of the poetic genre of the epitaph, with the context both of funerary monuments and social history in England. By following the history of epitaphic inscriptions, this article records the change in the relationship of the living and the dead from early modern England to what we would call our modernity. The dead, already disappeared but still among the living in early modern England, underwent a second and irrevocable disappearance once the value of the permanence of the dead succumbed to the value of the ephemerality of the living in a society based evermore on accelerating change and the privilege of the present over past and future.Show less >
Show more >This article pinpoints the decisive moment of the two hundred year "life" of the poetic genre of the epitaph, with the context both of funerary monuments and social history in England. By following the history of epitaphic inscriptions, this article records the change in the relationship of the living and the dead from early modern England to what we would call our modernity. The dead, already disappeared but still among the living in early modern England, underwent a second and irrevocable disappearance once the value of the permanence of the dead succumbed to the value of the ephemerality of the living in a society based evermore on accelerating change and the privilege of the present over past and future.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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