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Paperback Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture Book

ISBN: 081474270X

ISBN13: 9780814742709

Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture

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What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was once so widespread, why it has diminished--but not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappeared--and why we find it so peculiarly...

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