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Mourning, Memorials and Theories of Loss
This is a scholarly anthology of essays covering themes of mourning, memorialization and cultural changes. Some of the essays are densely theoretical, some retrieve fascinating historical material. The scope is very broad. One thing missing is a contribution on the clinical research on bereavement, of which there is by now a lot. This anthology would be suitable for...
Published on April 11, 2002 by Lucy Bregman
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Verbose and dense
This book made me want to gouge my eyes out of my head. Though some of the points are informative, the text is so bombastic that the ideas were often lost in the pleonastic writing (I had to look up pleonastic.) Someone with a tremendous amount of patience and a voluminous vocabulary may enjoy wading through this book, but the rest of us will simply wait for the movie.
Published on April 14, 2009 by M. Depinto
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Mourning, Memorials and Theories of Loss,
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This review is from: Symbolic Loss : The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End (Paperback)
This is a scholarly anthology of essays covering themes of mourning, memorialization and cultural changes. Some of the essays are densely theoretical, some retrieve fascinating historical material. The scope is very broad. One thing missing is a contribution on the clinical research on bereavement, of which there is by now a lot. This anthology would be suitable for an upper-level college or graduate school text.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Verbose and dense,
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This review is from: Symbolic Loss : The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End (Paperback)
This book made me want to gouge my eyes out of my head. Though some of the points are informative, the text is so bombastic that the ideas were often lost in the pleonastic writing (I had to look up pleonastic.) Someone with a tremendous amount of patience and a voluminous vocabulary may enjoy wading through this book, but the rest of us will simply wait for the movie.
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Symbolic Loss : The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End by Peter Homans (Paperback - November 22, 2000)
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