The Last Word

The Last Word
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Publisher : Coach House Books
Total Pages : 115
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ISBN-13 : 9781770565012
ISBN-10 : 1770565019
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Book Synopsis The Last Word by : Julia Cooper

Download or read book The Last Word written by Julia Cooper and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida’s heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper argues against the socially sanctioned desire to avoid thinking about death that results in clichéd memorials, honoring neither the living nor the dead.


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