The Mourners Song

Author : James Tatum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226789941
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mourner's Song written by James Tatum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter when or where they are fought, all wars have one thing in common: a relentless progression to monuments and memorials for the dead. Likewise all art made from war begins and ends in mourning and remembrance. In The Mourner's Song, James Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the writings of Stephen Crane, Edmund Wilson, Tim O'Brien, and Robert Lowell. Tatum's touchstone throughout is the Iliad, not just one of the earliest war poems, but also one of the most powerful examples of the way poetry can be a tribute to and consolation for what is lost in war. Reading the Iliad alongside later works inspired by war, Tatum reveals how the forms and processes of art convert mourning to memorial. He examines the role of remembrance and the distance from war it requires; the significance of landscape in memorialization; the artifacts of war that fire the imagination; the intimate relationship between war and love and its effects on the ferocity with which soldiers wage battle; and finally, the idea of memorialization itself. Because all survivors suffer the losses of war, Tatum's is a story of both victims and victors, commanders and soldiers, women and men. Photographs of war memorials in Vietnam, France, and the United States beautifully augment his testimonials. Eloquent and deeply moving, The Mourner's Song will speak to anyone interested in the literature of war and the relevance of the classics to our most pressing contemporary needs.

Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307398706
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mourner's Dance written by Katherine Ashenburg and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that the death of a loved one has a profound - and unpredictable - effect on the lives of those left behind. Mourning is the price we pay for love. But how does anyone survive those first weeks, months, and even years after a death, and then eventually return to normal life? When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg found herself drawn into the world of mourning customs. Finding little comfort in the stripped-down North American approach, she sought solace, and shaped the core of this much-praised book, by exploring the rich traditions that have sustained mourners in cultures around the world and across centuries. Intertwining anecdotes from past and present with her own story, Ashenburg uncovers the wisdom and creativity embedded in mourning rituals and their value in rebuilding those unravelled by loss. Somehow, as Ashenburg so deftly reveals, we find strength and go on living. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : T. L.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Πολυπενθεος Θρηνͅωδια. The Mourners Song. Or, a Voyce Out of the Wildernes written by T. L. and published by . This book was released on 1651 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslea Newman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1536215775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book October Mourning written by Leslea Newman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day. Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life. Back matter includes an epilogue, an afterword, explanations of poetic forms, and resources.

Author : Reverend Gerald Dennis Gill
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1618330241
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Catholic Liturgy written by Reverend Gerald Dennis Gill and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approval and publication of the document Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship, developed by the United States Bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, paves the way for further and more comprehensive application of the Church's norms and directives for the sung celebration of the Sacred Liturgy in our country. Music in Catholic Liturgy: A Pastoral and Theological Companion to Sing to the Lord is is an essential, practical, and theological resource for all involved in the preparation of the sung celebration of the Sacred Liturgy, especially parish priests and liturgical music ministers, with an easily accessible way to read, to more completely understand, and make excellent pastoral use of the direction now given to US parishes in Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship.

Author : Richard Moyle
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864387
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from the Second Float written by Richard Moyle and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesian community whose geographical isolation, together with a local ban on missionaries and churches, combine to allow its 600 members to maintain a level of traditional cultural practices unique to the region. Takü is arguably the only location where traditional Polynesian religion continues to be practiced. This book explores the many ways in which spirit activities impact on both domestic and ritual life, how group singing and dancing give audible and visible expression to a variety of religious beliefs, and how spirit mediums relay songs and dances from the recent dead. Takü’s community is well able to articulate the significance of their own strong performance tradition, and this book allows expert singers and dancers to speak passionately for themselves on subjects they understand intimately. Musical ethnographies from the Pacific are rare. Like Moyle’s earlier landmark volumes on Samoan and Tongan music, and also his trilogy on Australian Aboriginal music, this work will be of immense value to Pacific studies and will assume a place among the recognized staples of ethnomusicological research.

Author : Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Andaman Islanders written by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Sergei Kan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806281
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Immortality written by Sergei Kan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.éex’) as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: