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Cultures reveal themselves in how they react to death: how they ritualise it, tell its story, heal themselves. Before the modern period, death and dying seemed definitive, public and appropriate. This text traces the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.Friedman, Alan Warren is the author of 'Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521055673 and ISBN 0521055679.
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