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An Everlasting Name : Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration / Maoz Azaryahu.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XII, 200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110722994
  • 9783110723021
  • 9783110723014
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.4 23
LOC classification:
  • GT3390 .A93 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 “Remember My Name”: The Quest for Fame and Immortality -- 3 Remembered by their Name: Practices and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration -- 4 On Display: How Names are Arranged in a Casualty List -- 5 Who are they? Beyond a Nominal Afterlife -- 6 Putting a Face to a Name: Patterns of Symbolic Accretion -- 7 A Matter of Endurance: Damnatio Memoriae -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index
Summary: The 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 commemorative capacity of an “everlasting name” as a site of remembrance. It explores how notions about names, being, fame and an afterlife have coalesced into prestigious and time-honored commemorative practices and traditions that demonstrate the cultural power of an “everlasting name” to confer immortality through remembrance. By linking ancient traditions and modern practices, this book offers a cross-cultural analysis of onymic commemoration that is broad in scope and covers a wide time frame, encompassing diverse historical periods, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 “Remember My Name”: The Quest for Fame and Immortality -- 3 Remembered by their Name: Practices and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration -- 4 On Display: How Names are Arranged in a Casualty List -- 5 Who are they? Beyond a Nominal Afterlife -- 6 Putting a Face to a Name: Patterns of Symbolic Accretion -- 7 A Matter of Endurance: Damnatio Memoriae -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index

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The 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 commemorative capacity of an “everlasting name” as a site of remembrance. It explores how notions about names, being, fame and an afterlife have coalesced into prestigious and time-honored commemorative practices and traditions that demonstrate the cultural power of an “everlasting name” to confer immortality through remembrance. By linking ancient traditions and modern practices, this book offers a cross-cultural analysis of onymic commemoration that is broad in scope and covers a wide time frame, encompassing diverse historical periods, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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