Thanatology and its thesis of the repression of death: a discursive and generic analysis

This thesis examines the emergence of thanatology as a discipline, paying particular attention to the key thanatological theme that death has become a taboo topic in modern society and to the rhetorical construction of early thanatological texts. In order to study these issues, the thesis uses a var...

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Main Author: Irina Romanova
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Other human society not elsewhere classified
thanatology
death studies
repression of death
death denial
taboo on death
Herman Feifel
Geoffrey Gorer
rhetoric
genre
Discursive and Rhetorical Psychology
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.26174/thesis.lboro.8199368.v1
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