Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-century America2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize |
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... past in the present tense, what we know as grief, permits the feeling body, and particularly the mournful body, to assess the ongoing significance of the past in a culture speeding ever more rapidly toward the attainment of its ...
... past. The preservation of sorrow permitted the subject to maintain a constant connection to these profoundly humanizing moments in time. Exceptional Times These transformations in the conception of nature—not only from malevolence to ...
... past, crafting accounts of humanity's movement through time that stressed the rise of civilizations and the growth of knowledge, and thus allowing for the collection and distribution of the gains enabled by this newly rational time ...
... past connection with assurance of a future reunion. The ability of nineteenth-century American mourning culture to integrate the visions of origins cited above in a single, socially stabilizing formation depended, in large part, on this ...
... past, present, and future under the rubric of familial affection. In contrast, what we earlier saw as the ... past, present, and future (Fisher insists, for instance, that one cannot "fear the past . . 12 INTRODUCTION.
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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Limited preview - 2007 |
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano No preview available - 2007 |