The obituary as collective memory / Bridget Fowler.
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TextSeries: Routledge advances in sociology ; 27.Publisher: New York : Routledge, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415364930
- 9780415364935
- 0203015967
- 9780203015964
- 920.001 22
- HM1025 .F69 2007
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| 920 IAC Iacocca : an autobiography / | 920 SAN What lies beneath : a memoir / | 920 ZOL Emile Zola : a biographical and critical study, / | 920.001 FOW The obituary as collective memory / | 920.0019 ELM Uncovering lives : the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology / | 920.009 HAM Biography : a brief history / | 920.00904 NEW New makers of modern culture / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.
Theoretical, historical and quantitative studies of the obituary -- Introduction -- Collective memory -- The historical sociology of death -- Bourdieu's social theory and the obituary -- The Times' obituaries in 1900 and 1948 -- The social value of death: the microworld of the editors -- The lives we choose to remember: a quantitative analysis (with Esperanza Bielsa) -- Memories burnished at the shock of death : discourse analysis of newspaper obituaries -- The politicians' obituaries, 1999-2006 -- The writers' obituaries, 1999-2006 -- The artists' obituaries, 1999-2006 -- The sports obituaries, 1999-2006 -- The trade-unionists' obituaries, 1999-2006 -- Conclusion -- Tables -- Bibliography.
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