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Vicent Salvador
Salvador, Vicent
Vicent
Salvador
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Universitat Jaume I
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Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
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Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children’s Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, Hunter College, City University of New York
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05
This volume’s contribution to knowledge is undeniable: especially for its insistence on aspects such as narrativity, the sociocultural construction of beliefs and practices related to death, and the progressive medicalization in today's world.
Dominic Keown, University of Cambridge
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This book combines the epistemological interests of psychology, history of medicine, ethnography, ethics, language sciences, and literary criticism.
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Vicent Salvador
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Vicent
Salvador
†
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
3
A01
Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Hunter College, City University of New York
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Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death
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Death
From myth to the laboratory
1
A01
Josep Lluis Barona
Barona, Josep Lluis
Josep Lluis
Barona
Universitat de València
20
culture
20
death
20
medicine and technology
20
myth
01
Death is a biological event which forms an essential part of culture. All human societies have attributed some meaning to death in myth, religion, philosophy or science. The various forms of art have also represented death as an essential part of the human condition. This article discusses the cultural, social and medical constructions of death, starting with the origin myth and the contradiction between death and eternal life. It explores funeral rites and parish registers, examines death as an important social phenomenon in modern societies and considers the meaning of civil registries as instruments of social identity and legitimacy. Finally, it reflects on medicine’s power over death, death’s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death.
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Moral ortothanasia and the right to die
A multinarrative approach
1
A01
Fernando Lolas Stepke
Lolas Stepke, Fernando
Fernando
Lolas Stepke
The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile
20
bioethics
20
death
20
dying
20
ortothanasia
20
right to die
01
Based upon a historical analysis of death and dying in different contexts and reflecting on the interfaces between religion, philosophy, and medicine, this paper elaborates on the ethical quandaries associated with the process of dying from three different narrative perspectives: first, second, and third person. A sound pragmatics of care is developed when these three narrative voices are integrated into a meaningful whole. The process becomes then a true ortothanasia: dying is in harmony with <i>personal expectations and desires</i>, the <i>needs of relevant others</i> and the regulations <i>implicit or explicit</i> in society. It is contended that beliefs and practices designed to fit into one of the narratives may not necessarily serve to explain phenomena in other discourses. A right ortothanasia demands an hermeneutics of death and a dialectics of dying.
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In the wake of loss
Grief, mourning and bereavement
1
A01
Beatriz Gil-Juliá
Gil-Juliá, Beatriz
Beatriz
Gil-Juliá
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Rafael Ballester-Arnal
Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
Rafael
Ballester-Arnal
Universitat Jaume I
20
complicated grief
20
coping
20
grief experience
20
loss
20
psychological adjustment
01
The loss of a loved one may be considered as one of the major life-event stressors not only by its near inevitability but also by the high likelihood that we will go through it more than once in the course of a normal life span. Most people experience the loss as a natural response to a loved one’s death. Nevertheless, for a significant minority this process can be complicated. In the wake of loss, grief, mourning and bereavement appear to be synonymous terms although they differ in their clinical manifestations. Tackling the nuances linked to these concepts and the main issues involved in an adaptive or non-adaptive course of adjustment to the loss will be the aim of this chapter.
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Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings
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The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else
The
gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else
The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press
1
A01
Antonio M. Bañón Hernández
Bañón Hernández, Antonio M.
Antonio M.
Bañón Hernández
Universidad de Almería
20
critical discourse analysis
20
death
20
El País
20
health communication
20
organ transplants
01
This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of <i>death</i> in these types. We will summarize the main lines of research on this issue and proceed to analyze a sample of journal documents on transplants published in the newspaper <i>El País</i> in two different stages (1976–1986 and 2006–2016) and in which ‘death’ appears in the headline or in the subtitle. The analysis is aimed at locating main themes, basic arguments and lexical structures used to refer to <i>death</i> in this information framework.
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Chapter
8
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Giving meaning to illness and death
End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer
1
A01
Martí Domínguez
Domínguez, Martí
Martí
Domínguez
Universitat de València
2
A01
Lucía Sapiña
Sapiña, Lucía
Lucía
Sapiña
Universitat de València
20
adolescent cancer
20
aya
20
end-of-life narratives
20
online stories and death
01
In recent years, adolescents and young adults (<sc>aya</sc>s) with cancer and survivors of childhood cancer have started to organize as a collective in Europe. In this context, associations have included in their websites stories by young people diagnosed with cancer or who have gone through the disease. In this study, four of these websites (two in Spanish and two in English) are analyzed to obtain information on how <sc>aya</sc>s approach the subject of death in their stories. From the total of 128 studied stories, explicit references to death appear in 30. Discourse analysis will show us how <sc>aya</sc>s give meaning to the end of their own and their friends’ life.
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Religion, collusion, and “fighting”
Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain
1
A01
Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care/Institute of Child Health, University College London/Hunter College, City University of New York
20
childhood
20
death
20
health communication
20
information non-disclosure
20
optimism
01
This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of communicative practices surrounding the death of a five-year-old pediatric cancer patient in a hospital in Catalonia (Spain). In the present case study, I highlight the significant co-occurring variation in how cancer and death are discussed or avoided within the same sociocultural. Specifically, I focus on three ways of talking about cancer and death: (1) using religious imagery, (2) co-creating the optimistic and hopeful collusion that everything is going well, and (3) using “let’s keep fighting” language.
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10
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Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales
1
A01
Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
20
clinical case report
20
clinical tale and Oliver Sacks
20
death
20
euphemism
20
rhetoric
20
taboo
01
Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the <i>end of life</i>, cannot avoid the tendency to soften the impact caused by talking or writing about death. Like anyone else, healthcare professionals who publish clinical case reports (<sc>ccr</sc>) tend to use euphemisms. They also have the option to use a technical lexicon that could be perceived as a range of euphemistic expressions. In this chapter we review the place of death in this professional genre. We also compare several aspects of the rhetoric of death in <sc>ccr</sc> and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose.
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Section III. Death in literary texts
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12
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‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death
A self-help book written by Seneca
1
A01
David Pujante
Pujante, David
David
Pujante
Universidad de Valladolid
20
death
20
epistolary genre and self-help genre
20
Seneca
20
stoicism
01
<i>Moral Letters to Lucilius</i> is a highly modern work in terms of both its generic complexity and its approach, which resembles a self-help treatise written in the twenty-first century. Seneca bases his letters on stoic approaches that may be very useful to today’s society, which lives facing outwards, frightened and stressed. The objective is to attain a moral freedom and an inner independence that removes the fear of death, among other benefits.
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13
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Montaigne, the essay and the end of life
1
A01
John Skelton
Skelton, John
John
Skelton
Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham
20
death
20
essay
20
perspective
20
reflection
20
scepticism
01
This study builds on previous work in the way that death and dying are represented in writing in the Humanities by looking principally though not exclusively at the work of Montaigne. It is argued that while literary texts of course portray end of life issues, it is often either focussed on the death of an individual and the surrounding grief, or “death” is used for symbolic purposes, for example as evidence of a society in decay. The essay form, which was to a large extent created by Montaigne, offers the opportunity to explore end of life questions as concepts, and to consider through them how to die – and by extension, how to live.
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14
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Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’
1
A01
Montserrat Lunati I Maruny
Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat
Montserrat
Lunati I Maruny
Cardiff University/University of St Andrews
20
"desnéixer"
20
body
20
Holocaust / Shoa
20
Maria-Mercè Marçal
20
Mercè Rodoreda
20
multidirectional memory
20
Post-Freudian melancholia
20
prosthetic memory
20
psychoanalysis
20
representation of the maternal
20
twentieth-century Catalan literature
01
This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story “Nit i boira” [“Night and Fog”] (1947) by Mercè Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of “desnéixer” from Maria-Mercè Marçal’s <i>Raó del cos</i> [<i>The Body’s Reason</i>] (2000). Both texts articulate the (im)possible task of freeing the maternal from controversial approaches to it such as that of classical psychoanalysis which determines the patriarchal rupture of the alleged plenitude of pre-Oedipal mother-child bond, or from the effects of a Western culture that, as Luce Irigaray claims, “repose sur le meurtre de la mère.” Alison Landsberg’s and Michael Rothberg’s views on memory help to read Rodoreda’s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics.
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15
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The scenography of death in contemporary poetry
The
scenography of death in contemporary poetry
The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés
1
A01
Vicent Salvador
Salvador, Vicent
Vicent
Salvador
†
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Irene Mira
Mira, Irene
Irene
Mira
Universitat D'Alacant
20
domesticity
20
heterotopia
20
place
20
poetry and Vicent Andrés Estellés
20
spatiality
01
From the perspective of new studies on <i>spatiality</i>, which favours the concept of <i>place</i> (as opposed to the broader concept of <i>space</i>), representations of death are linked to specific places that are typical of each culture. In our current culture, places such as the sanatorium, the hospital, the dying house, the coffin and the cemetery are often related to the concept of <i>heterotopia</i> designed years ago by Michel Foucault. Some types of heterotopia that are related to death have a high performance in the semiotics of contemporary poetry. In his work, the Catalan poet Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924–1993) depicts scenes of death that integrate many of these places, objects, characters and sequences of actions. This scenography, which is strongly shaped by metaphorical and metonymic mappings, is an essential ingredient of his poetic semiosis as part of the treatment of the subject matter of death and dying.
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Chapter
16
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Beyond the limits of death
Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction
1
A01
Sara Molpeceres
Molpeceres, Sara
Sara
Molpeceres
Universidad de Valladolid
20
androids
20
comparative literature
20
constructivism
20
mind uploading and death
20
myth
20
posthumanism
20
Science Fiction
20
simulacra
20
thematology
01
In this paper I will discuss two ways of extending the human life-span that have been used in Science Fiction. The first involves uploading the human mind onto a computer after physical death. The second involves a sinister scenario in which clones, doubles or virtual simulacra or simulations are created to emulate living or dead human beings. My aim is to explore these two options and examine their epistemological and ontological implications: being human without a body; the nature of an uploaded mind beyond the body’s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity.
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Vicent Salvador
Salvador, Vicent
Vicent
Salvador
†
Universitat Jaume I
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Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
3
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Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children’s Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, Hunter College, City University of New York
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eng
202
vi
196
LAN009030
v.2006
CFG
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24
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24
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Narrative Studies
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Philosophy
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01
Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. <br />This book deals with this phenomenon, and more specifically with the discourses that surround – and construct our perspectives and understanding of – death and dying. Of course, the present volume does not attempt to be exhaustive, and considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and importantly, literary studies. It combines various points of view and different methodologies of knowledge, in the hope that they come together to constitute a written dialogue –or more precisely, a <i>polylogue</i>. <br />The ordering of the texts in this volume provides readers with an itinerary that begins with more general approaches, such as a historical presentation of the medicalisation of death and an in-depth reflection on the best way to die, and ends with studies of specific literary works from different periods. <br />The itinerary that this book provides is framed by a discourse analysis-based overview that explores how different approaches to death and dying intersect and complement each other in an interdisciplinary endeavour. This analysis focuses on literary and non-literary genres in order to shed some new light on a topic that is inexhaustible because of its sociocultural relevance.
05
This volume’s contribution to knowledge is undeniable: especially for its insistence on aspects such as narrativity, the sociocultural construction of beliefs and practices related to death, and the progressive medicalization in today's world.
Dominic Keown, University of Cambridge
05
This book combines the epistemological interests of psychology, history of medicine, ethnography, ethics, language sciences, and literary criticism.
Manuel Pérez-Saldanya, Universitat de València
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Vicent Salvador
Salvador, Vicent
Vicent
Salvador
†
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
3
A01
Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Hunter College, City University of New York
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Death
From myth to the laboratory
1
A01
Josep Lluis Barona
Barona, Josep Lluis
Josep Lluis
Barona
Universitat de València
20
culture
20
death
20
medicine and technology
20
myth
01
Death is a biological event which forms an essential part of culture. All human societies have attributed some meaning to death in myth, religion, philosophy or science. The various forms of art have also represented death as an essential part of the human condition. This article discusses the cultural, social and medical constructions of death, starting with the origin myth and the contradiction between death and eternal life. It explores funeral rites and parish registers, examines death as an important social phenomenon in modern societies and considers the meaning of civil registries as instruments of social identity and legitimacy. Finally, it reflects on medicine’s power over death, death’s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death.
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Moral ortothanasia and the right to die
A multinarrative approach
1
A01
Fernando Lolas Stepke
Lolas Stepke, Fernando
Fernando
Lolas Stepke
The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile
20
bioethics
20
death
20
dying
20
ortothanasia
20
right to die
01
Based upon a historical analysis of death and dying in different contexts and reflecting on the interfaces between religion, philosophy, and medicine, this paper elaborates on the ethical quandaries associated with the process of dying from three different narrative perspectives: first, second, and third person. A sound pragmatics of care is developed when these three narrative voices are integrated into a meaningful whole. The process becomes then a true ortothanasia: dying is in harmony with <i>personal expectations and desires</i>, the <i>needs of relevant others</i> and the regulations <i>implicit or explicit</i> in society. It is contended that beliefs and practices designed to fit into one of the narratives may not necessarily serve to explain phenomena in other discourses. A right ortothanasia demands an hermeneutics of death and a dialectics of dying.
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In the wake of loss
Grief, mourning and bereavement
1
A01
Beatriz Gil-Juliá
Gil-Juliá, Beatriz
Beatriz
Gil-Juliá
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Rafael Ballester-Arnal
Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
Rafael
Ballester-Arnal
Universitat Jaume I
20
complicated grief
20
coping
20
grief experience
20
loss
20
psychological adjustment
01
The loss of a loved one may be considered as one of the major life-event stressors not only by its near inevitability but also by the high likelihood that we will go through it more than once in the course of a normal life span. Most people experience the loss as a natural response to a loved one’s death. Nevertheless, for a significant minority this process can be complicated. In the wake of loss, grief, mourning and bereavement appear to be synonymous terms although they differ in their clinical manifestations. Tackling the nuances linked to these concepts and the main issues involved in an adaptive or non-adaptive course of adjustment to the loss will be the aim of this chapter.
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Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings
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The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else
The
gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else
The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press
1
A01
Antonio M. Bañón Hernández
Bañón Hernández, Antonio M.
Antonio M.
Bañón Hernández
Universidad de Almería
20
critical discourse analysis
20
death
20
El País
20
health communication
20
organ transplants
01
This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of <i>death</i> in these types. We will summarize the main lines of research on this issue and proceed to analyze a sample of journal documents on transplants published in the newspaper <i>El País</i> in two different stages (1976–1986 and 2006–2016) and in which ‘death’ appears in the headline or in the subtitle. The analysis is aimed at locating main themes, basic arguments and lexical structures used to refer to <i>death</i> in this information framework.
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Giving meaning to illness and death
End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer
1
A01
Martí Domínguez
Domínguez, Martí
Martí
Domínguez
Universitat de València
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A01
Lucía Sapiña
Sapiña, Lucía
Lucía
Sapiña
Universitat de València
20
adolescent cancer
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aya
20
end-of-life narratives
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online stories and death
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In recent years, adolescents and young adults (<sc>aya</sc>s) with cancer and survivors of childhood cancer have started to organize as a collective in Europe. In this context, associations have included in their websites stories by young people diagnosed with cancer or who have gone through the disease. In this study, four of these websites (two in Spanish and two in English) are analyzed to obtain information on how <sc>aya</sc>s approach the subject of death in their stories. From the total of 128 studied stories, explicit references to death appear in 30. Discourse analysis will show us how <sc>aya</sc>s give meaning to the end of their own and their friends’ life.
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Religion, collusion, and “fighting”
Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain
1
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Ignasi Clemente
Clemente, Ignasi
Ignasi
Clemente
Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care/Institute of Child Health, University College London/Hunter College, City University of New York
20
childhood
20
death
20
health communication
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information non-disclosure
20
optimism
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This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of communicative practices surrounding the death of a five-year-old pediatric cancer patient in a hospital in Catalonia (Spain). In the present case study, I highlight the significant co-occurring variation in how cancer and death are discussed or avoided within the same sociocultural. Specifically, I focus on three ways of talking about cancer and death: (1) using religious imagery, (2) co-creating the optimistic and hopeful collusion that everything is going well, and (3) using “let’s keep fighting” language.
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Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales
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Adéla Kotátková
Kotátková, Adéla
Adéla
Kotátková
Universitat Jaume I
20
clinical case report
20
clinical tale and Oliver Sacks
20
death
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euphemism
20
rhetoric
20
taboo
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Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the <i>end of life</i>, cannot avoid the tendency to soften the impact caused by talking or writing about death. Like anyone else, healthcare professionals who publish clinical case reports (<sc>ccr</sc>) tend to use euphemisms. They also have the option to use a technical lexicon that could be perceived as a range of euphemistic expressions. In this chapter we review the place of death in this professional genre. We also compare several aspects of the rhetoric of death in <sc>ccr</sc> and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose.
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Section III. Death in literary texts
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‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death
A self-help book written by Seneca
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David Pujante
Pujante, David
David
Pujante
Universidad de Valladolid
20
death
20
epistolary genre and self-help genre
20
Seneca
20
stoicism
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<i>Moral Letters to Lucilius</i> is a highly modern work in terms of both its generic complexity and its approach, which resembles a self-help treatise written in the twenty-first century. Seneca bases his letters on stoic approaches that may be very useful to today’s society, which lives facing outwards, frightened and stressed. The objective is to attain a moral freedom and an inner independence that removes the fear of death, among other benefits.
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Montaigne, the essay and the end of life
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John Skelton
Skelton, John
John
Skelton
Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham
20
death
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essay
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perspective
20
reflection
20
scepticism
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This study builds on previous work in the way that death and dying are represented in writing in the Humanities by looking principally though not exclusively at the work of Montaigne. It is argued that while literary texts of course portray end of life issues, it is often either focussed on the death of an individual and the surrounding grief, or “death” is used for symbolic purposes, for example as evidence of a society in decay. The essay form, which was to a large extent created by Montaigne, offers the opportunity to explore end of life questions as concepts, and to consider through them how to die – and by extension, how to live.
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Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’
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Montserrat Lunati I Maruny
Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat
Montserrat
Lunati I Maruny
Cardiff University/University of St Andrews
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"desnéixer"
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body
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Holocaust / Shoa
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Maria-Mercè Marçal
20
Mercè Rodoreda
20
multidirectional memory
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Post-Freudian melancholia
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prosthetic memory
20
psychoanalysis
20
representation of the maternal
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twentieth-century Catalan literature
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This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story “Nit i boira” [“Night and Fog”] (1947) by Mercè Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of “desnéixer” from Maria-Mercè Marçal’s <i>Raó del cos</i> [<i>The Body’s Reason</i>] (2000). Both texts articulate the (im)possible task of freeing the maternal from controversial approaches to it such as that of classical psychoanalysis which determines the patriarchal rupture of the alleged plenitude of pre-Oedipal mother-child bond, or from the effects of a Western culture that, as Luce Irigaray claims, “repose sur le meurtre de la mère.” Alison Landsberg’s and Michael Rothberg’s views on memory help to read Rodoreda’s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics.
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The scenography of death in contemporary poetry
The
scenography of death in contemporary poetry
The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés
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A01
Vicent Salvador
Salvador, Vicent
Vicent
Salvador
†
Universitat Jaume I
2
A01
Irene Mira
Mira, Irene
Irene
Mira
Universitat D'Alacant
20
domesticity
20
heterotopia
20
place
20
poetry and Vicent Andrés Estellés
20
spatiality
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From the perspective of new studies on <i>spatiality</i>, which favours the concept of <i>place</i> (as opposed to the broader concept of <i>space</i>), representations of death are linked to specific places that are typical of each culture. In our current culture, places such as the sanatorium, the hospital, the dying house, the coffin and the cemetery are often related to the concept of <i>heterotopia</i> designed years ago by Michel Foucault. Some types of heterotopia that are related to death have a high performance in the semiotics of contemporary poetry. In his work, the Catalan poet Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924–1993) depicts scenes of death that integrate many of these places, objects, characters and sequences of actions. This scenography, which is strongly shaped by metaphorical and metonymic mappings, is an essential ingredient of his poetic semiosis as part of the treatment of the subject matter of death and dying.
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Beyond the limits of death
Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction
1
A01
Sara Molpeceres
Molpeceres, Sara
Sara
Molpeceres
Universidad de Valladolid
20
androids
20
comparative literature
20
constructivism
20
mind uploading and death
20
myth
20
posthumanism
20
Science Fiction
20
simulacra
20
thematology
01
In this paper I will discuss two ways of extending the human life-span that have been used in Science Fiction. The first involves uploading the human mind onto a computer after physical death. The second involves a sinister scenario in which clones, doubles or virtual simulacra or simulations are created to emulate living or dead human beings. My aim is to explore these two options and examine their epistemological and ontological implications: being human without a body; the nature of an uploaded mind beyond the body’s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity.
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