A Labor of Love
Author : Garry Schaeffer
Publisher : G M S Pub
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0964578018
Author : Garry Schaeffer
Publisher : G M S Pub
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0964578018
Author : David M. Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009413066
In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
Author : William Apess
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : William Linn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 1800
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Author : Phyllis Theroux
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781501112423
This invaluable anthology is the first and only collection dedicated to the art of the eulogy. For the past several years, Phyllis Theroux has collected the most eloquent and moving writing commemorating a death, assessing a life, or offering solace to the bereaved. Ranging from Thomas Jefferson's magisterial eulogy for George Washington to Anna Quindlen's affectionate memorial for her grandmother; from Helen Keller's words about her dear friend Mark Twain to Adlai Stevenson's about Eleanor Roosevelt, The Book of Eulogies establishes that great eulogies are a celebration of remarkable lives that can illuminate, confirm, inspire, and redirect our own. Theroux has included some of the world's most well-known tributes, such as Pericles' Funeral Oration, Jules Michelet's appreciation of Jeanne d'Arc, Victor Hugo's ringing words on the one hundredth anniversary of Voltaire's death, Cardinal Suenens's eulogy for Pope John XXIII. But most of the eulogized assembled here are eighteenth- to twentieth-century Americans, and the stories of their lives illuminate our history with a particularly intimate light. In Robert Kennedy's extemporaneous remarks upon hearing of the death of Martin Luther King, or Eugene McCarthy's tribute to his friend and colleague, Hubert Humphrey, the values, wisdom, and spirit of both the eulogized and the eulogizer are revealed. The Book of Eulogies is a sourcebook for anyone who must find words of solace, understanding, and inspiration on the occasion of a beloved's death. It is also a treasury of astonishing eloquence, passion, and humanity -- a record of extraordinary lives, seen through the eyes of those who knew and loved them.
Author : Jackie Bailey
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2022-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781743798324
In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities.
Author : Demosthenes
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Sarah York
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0787958654
Remembering Well offers family members, clergy, funeral professionals, and hospice workers ways to plan services and rituals that honor the spirit of the deceased and are faithful to that person's values and beliefs, while also respecting the needs and wishes of those who will attAnd the services. It is an essential resource for anyone who yearns to put death in a spiritual context but is unsure how to do so-including both those who have broken with tradition and those who wish to give new meaning to the time-honored rituals of their faith. The real-life stories, examples, and practical guidelines in this book address a wide array of important issues, including the difficult decisions that survivors must make quickly when a death occurs-and the sensitive topic of family alienation, where possibilities for healing, forgiveness, and hope are explored. The invaluable insights offered here will help those who grieve to prepare mind and spirit for life's final rites of passage.
Author : Julia Cooper
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1770565019
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, honoring neither the living nor the dead.
Author : Jill Werman Harris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0307427455
A rich anthology of memorial tributes that offers a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as ordinary folk from the seventeenth century to the present are mourned and celebrated in the memorable eulogies, condolence letters, poems and epitaphs collected in these pages.