The Final Curtain: State Funerals and the Theatre of PowerRodopi, 1999 - 252 oldal Death is the one subject about which our culture is still reticent. Consequently many ceremonies about death are not examined in an open, enquiring and direct way. The state funeral, that large, public, ritualized statement about death is accepted in our society, while its deeper significances remain unexamined because it is seen as something of an historical curiosity, a survival from an earlier age associated with the traditions of that society. This well-illustrated study of a number of state funerals - of the Medicis and the Habsburgs in the Renaissance, of the Duke of Albemarle in the seventeenth century, of the Duke of Wellington and Abraham Lincoln in the nineteenth century, and of President Kennedy and Diana, Princess of Wales in the twentieth century - and the mythical structures and traditions they represent, examines two aspects in particular: the strongly political undertones of the public statements, and the theatrical elements of the public ritual. |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 27 találatból.
5. oldal
... funerals the media that make up their primary source materials are the book and visual objects , chiefly two - dimensional . For the final two funerals it is television and other present - day mass media that are Prologue 5.
... funerals the media that make up their primary source materials are the book and visual objects , chiefly two - dimensional . For the final two funerals it is television and other present - day mass media that are Prologue 5.
20. oldal
... object , usually a representation of some sacred person . As with myth , the signified of an icon functions metonymically ; it offers the part for the whole . This feature of the iconic process raises the probability that there can be a ...
... object , usually a representation of some sacred person . As with myth , the signified of an icon functions metonymically ; it offers the part for the whole . This feature of the iconic process raises the probability that there can be a ...
21. oldal
... object - as - something , because its reference is transcendent , whereas that of the image can , and sometimes does , exist in the same register as its representation . An icon is a representation made through visual media of some ...
... object - as - something , because its reference is transcendent , whereas that of the image can , and sometimes does , exist in the same register as its representation . An icon is a representation made through visual media of some ...
22. oldal
... object is endowed with the idea . Freedberg makes the point that there is a refocusing of attention away from rationality involved in this particular act of transference , a refocusing which in its turn also enhances the potentiality ...
... object is endowed with the idea . Freedberg makes the point that there is a refocusing of attention away from rationality involved in this particular act of transference , a refocusing which in its turn also enhances the potentiality ...
23. oldal
... object as object . Idolatry is to be obsessed with what that object symbolizes , and can thus be seen to be the term which will be more appropriate for this study , when these explanations are applied strictly . " Fetishism " or ...
... object as object . Idolatry is to be obsessed with what that object symbolizes , and can thus be seen to be the term which will be more appropriate for this study , when these explanations are applied strictly . " Fetishism " or ...
Tartalomjegyzék
9 | |
Political Théâtre Macabre | 45 |
The Impenetrable Duke | 71 |
The Duke of Wellingtons | 99 |
Uncle Sams Dead Democratic Ritual | 131 |
The Apotheosis of the Queen of Hearts | 196 |
Epilogue | 221 |
Candles and their Standards in the | 232 |
Index | 244 |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Abbey Abraham Lincoln action American Amsterdam/Atlanta apotheosis appears artistic audience baldachino Bocock Borsook candles cappella ardente catafalque certainly Charles claim coffin College of Arms contemporary cortège Cosimo culture decorations democracy demonstrate Diana Duke of Albemarle Duke of Wellington effigy elements emotional English esequie example focus funeral car funeral ceremonies funeral procession funeral service further George Monck grief Habsburg hero icon Illustrated London ISBN Kennedy assassination Kennedy's kind King Lincoln's death Lincoln's funeral lying-in-state Margherita d'Austria Medici Medici esequie mourners mourning myth mythical mythology occasion pageant painting Palace performance person photograph political potent President Prince Princess of Wales qualities Queen Renaissance representation response ritual Royal Family seems seen sense September 1997 Shils and Young signified social society specific spectacle status symbol television theatre Toby jug Vasari Victorian visual Wellington's funeral White
Népszerű szakaszok
27. oldal - ... the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence.
108. oldal - In spite of some foibles and faults, he was, beyond all doubt, a very great man — the only great man of the present time — and comparable, in point of greatness, to the most eminent of those who have lived before him.
73. oldal - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart: I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
173. oldal - He puts one hand on the Bible and raises the other hand to God as he takes the oath. And if he breaks his oath, he is not only committing a crime against the Constitution, for which the Constitution can impeach him — and should impeach him — but he is committing a sin against God.
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