Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42A wide ranging, multi disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity This issue of Alif explores the ways in which humans have come to confront their mortality across time and space. Contributions question the nature of loss, grief, and the possibility of an afterlife. Is death only an interlude? Perhaps simply the end? How have people used literature and

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and the numerous controversies that have kept it a subject of heated debate for decades

Issues emerge around multi-language development

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This book is a catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the historic museum in Bamberg

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This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture

these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority

It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction

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