TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Julia
TI  - The last word: reviving the dying art of eulogy 
T2  - [Exploded views]
AV  - GT3390 .L378 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Coach House Books
KW  - Eulogies
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Praise
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; Cover --; Title --; Copyright --; Prologue --; The Fairy-Tale Funeral --; Great Men to Mourn --; The Futility of Progress --; A Loss for Words --; Ordinary Ruins --; The Amateur's Art --; Works Cited --; About the Author --; About the Exploded Views Series; 2; b
N2  - "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."--
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