Christophe Bident
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823281763
- eISBN:
- 9780823284825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823281763.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Looks at the two early short narratives “The Idyll” and “The Last Word,” both on their own terms, and in relation Blanchot’s wider creative writing at the time (Thomas the Obscure). Picks up on the ...
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Looks at the two early short narratives “The Idyll” and “The Last Word,” both on their own terms, and in relation Blanchot’s wider creative writing at the time (Thomas the Obscure). Picks up on the possible traces of a political experience and language in these works.Less
Looks at the two early short narratives “The Idyll” and “The Last Word,” both on their own terms, and in relation Blanchot’s wider creative writing at the time (Thomas the Obscure). Picks up on the possible traces of a political experience and language in these works.
Abby Burnett
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628461114
- eISBN:
- 9781626740624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461114.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Both birth and death once took place in the home, where nursing was done by neighbors. As a death approached, neighbors took turns “sitting up” all night with the patient to administer medicine, ...
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Both birth and death once took place in the home, where nursing was done by neighbors. As a death approached, neighbors took turns “sitting up” all night with the patient to administer medicine, guard against the taboo of someone dying alone, and to awaken the family when the time came to witness any last words, requests or confessions. A variety of superstitions warded off death, foretold its coming (often pertaining to bird or animal behaviour) or were be observed once death occurred.Less
Both birth and death once took place in the home, where nursing was done by neighbors. As a death approached, neighbors took turns “sitting up” all night with the patient to administer medicine, guard against the taboo of someone dying alone, and to awaken the family when the time came to witness any last words, requests or confessions. A variety of superstitions warded off death, foretold its coming (often pertaining to bird or animal behaviour) or were be observed once death occurred.
Abby Burnett
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628461114
- eISBN:
- 9781626740624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461114.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Notifying the community that a burial was to take place was challenging in communities having only a weekly newspaper. A variety of means were employed: bells, party-line phones, word of mouth, ...
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Notifying the community that a burial was to take place was challenging in communities having only a weekly newspaper. A variety of means were employed: bells, party-line phones, word of mouth, handmade funeral notices. Obituaries, often published long after the burial, contained a wealth of information not found today, including the deceased’s last words and cause of death. Coffins were carried to the cemetery, or transported there in the back of a wagon, truck or later, in funeral home hearses. Prior to closing the coffin it was customary for mourners to take a final, farewell look at the deceased. There was no societal taboo against this, the touching of remains, or viewing any that were deteriorated.Less
Notifying the community that a burial was to take place was challenging in communities having only a weekly newspaper. A variety of means were employed: bells, party-line phones, word of mouth, handmade funeral notices. Obituaries, often published long after the burial, contained a wealth of information not found today, including the deceased’s last words and cause of death. Coffins were carried to the cemetery, or transported there in the back of a wagon, truck or later, in funeral home hearses. Prior to closing the coffin it was customary for mourners to take a final, farewell look at the deceased. There was no societal taboo against this, the touching of remains, or viewing any that were deteriorated.
Jonathan W. White
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469632049
- eISBN:
- 9781469632063
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632049.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of soldiers had dreams, presentiments or premonitions that they would be killed in battle. Whether or not most of these prophetic visions actually occurred can never be ...
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Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of soldiers had dreams, presentiments or premonitions that they would be killed in battle. Whether or not most of these prophetic visions actually occurred can never be known. Their significance, however, lies in that so many soldiers remembered them years after the firing had ceased. Indeed, veterans’ postwar remembering of these dreams reveals how Civil War Americans clung to a sense that God had providentially superintended their lives and deaths—and that their sacrifices on the battlefield had been with purpose.Less
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of soldiers had dreams, presentiments or premonitions that they would be killed in battle. Whether or not most of these prophetic visions actually occurred can never be known. Their significance, however, lies in that so many soldiers remembered them years after the firing had ceased. Indeed, veterans’ postwar remembering of these dreams reveals how Civil War Americans clung to a sense that God had providentially superintended their lives and deaths—and that their sacrifices on the battlefield had been with purpose.
