Notes on a New Necrology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor W Marshall (McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 267-273 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/arg0-0htb-ve7p-q7ev |
| OpenAlex | W2065046862 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
How does one review a book that both succeeds and fails spectacularly, that breaks new ground and then plants what is probably unfertile seed, that rather pretentiously stakes a claim to a “new area” of inquiry while grossly neglecting related extant work? The Twentieth Century Book of the Dead is a difficult book to read that has frustrated, excited, and stimulated me for enough weeks now that, though I still don't know how to review it, I am motivated to offer some advice to the naive reader which might at least assist him to read it (for it is indeed well worth the effort), and to add some comments of my own
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |