Laura Wittman

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields; The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier explores the creation and reception of this symbolic national burial as an emblem for modern mourning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643390
• ISBN-10: 1442643390
• Artikelnr.: 32933300

Autorenporträt

Laura Wittman is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE: Anonymity and Sacrifice
1. Introduction: The Return of the Dead
1. A Unanimous Idea
2. Unanimity and confused bones
3. The origins of the Unknown Soldier
4. The primal scene
2. Identification and Chorality
1. Bones manifest themselves
2. Recognition, or reaching across the divide of living and dead
3. Sculpted water
4. A silent inscription
3. Sacrifice and the non finito
1. Taking up anonymity
2. Absolution
3. Initiation
PART TWO: Embodiment and Spectacle
4. Introduction: The Undead Body, The Photographic Image, and the Religious
Icon
1. Embodiment and Imbestiamento
2. Trauma and animality
3. The symbolic journey
4. The darkness within
5. Mutilation and Spectacle
1. Phantom pain, mutilation, and repetition
2. Touching the absent body: the "Banner of Randaccio"
3. Transmitting the experience of death: Promethean fire
6. Mourning Transcendence and Reenchanting the Flesh
1. Confronting Mortality
2. Mourning Transcendence
3. Modernity and the Mystical Body
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Illustrations