An Everlasting Name

An Everlasting NameThe ever growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to investigates onymic commemoration as a technology of immortality. Bringing together issues as diverse as casualty lists on public display and honorific street names, the inquiry expands on the

when he was art critic for the New Yorker

To define their value in hindsight would be to miss the factual life they had either made manifest or engendered

his theoretical relation to Wolff's ontology and Meinong's theory of objects

The book interweaves a memoir of Gilbert’s experiences with Israel’s people and places

and history are powerfully brought to bear on one of Chaucer’s most controversial works

In a land afflicted with poverty and misery

from the rapid-fire bidding of North Carolina tobacco auctions to the "upside-down" Dutch auctions of Tel Aviv

explores the enduring legacy of Catullus and his intricate relationship with the traditions of Graeco-Roman poetry

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Hubbs challenges the conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame white working folk as a perpetual bigot class

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