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The last word : reviving the dying art of eulogy

The last word : reviving the dying art of eulogy

Book 2017

"The last word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida's heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper argues against the socially sanctioned desire to avoid thinking about death that results in clichéd memorials, honouring neither the living nor the dead"-- Provided by publisher.

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