Death in LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1980 - 451 Seiten This book will show the richness and diversity of death as a subject in a variety of literary genres. Second, it will demonstrate the timelessness of the subject of death in literature, as evidence by selections ranging from 2300 B.C. to A.D. 1979. Third, it will reflect a variety of cultural traditions through selections from India, China, Japan, Greece, Nigeria, Lebanon, Russia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Ireland, and the United States. Fourth, it will be a helpful book for teaching courses on death in the humanities and a beneficial book for all persons who want to enrich their lives by sensitizing themselves to the mortality shared by us all. |
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... story writers . The following story , with its alternative endings , ex- plores the inevitability theme in an intriguing manner . This is the story of a widow's son , but it is a story that has two end- ings . There was once a widow ...
... story writers . The following story , with its alternative endings , ex- plores the inevitability theme in an intriguing manner . This is the story of a widow's son , but it is a story that has two end- ings . There was once a widow ...
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Robert F. Weir. number of stories , with The Death of Ivan Ilych ( 1886 ) clearly being the outstanding one . Tolstoy's story is unmatched for the purposes of teaching death as a literary subject and learning to appreciate the prismatic ...
Robert F. Weir. number of stories , with The Death of Ivan Ilych ( 1886 ) clearly being the outstanding one . Tolstoy's story is unmatched for the purposes of teaching death as a literary subject and learning to appreciate the prismatic ...
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... story , 27 ; James Weldon Johnson poem , 63 ; Cervantes novel , 75 ; Katherine Anne Porter story , 84 ; Robert Frost poem , 158 ; James Agee novel , 160 and 335 ; the Iliad , 185 ; Hamlet , 192 ; Feodor Dostoevsky novel , 196 ; Ambrose ...
... story , 27 ; James Weldon Johnson poem , 63 ; Cervantes novel , 75 ; Katherine Anne Porter story , 84 ; Robert Frost poem , 158 ; James Agee novel , 160 and 335 ; the Iliad , 185 ; Hamlet , 192 ; Feodor Dostoevsky novel , 196 ; Ambrose ...
Inhalt
DEATH PERSONIFIED | 43 |
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 61 |
PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DYING | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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