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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... woman . John would be looking for a young woman with the peaked Spanish comb in her hair and the painted fan . Digging post holes changes a woman . Riding country roads in the winter when women had their babies was another thing ...
... woman . John would be looking for a young woman with the peaked Spanish comb in her hair and the painted fan . Digging post holes changes a woman . Riding country roads in the winter when women had their babies was another thing ...
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... woman might be alarmed at their being alone , and without any hope that his appearance would reassure her , he took hold of the door and pulled it towards him , so that she should not be tempted to lock herself in again . Although she ...
... woman might be alarmed at their being alone , and without any hope that his appearance would reassure her , he took hold of the door and pulled it towards him , so that she should not be tempted to lock herself in again . Although she ...
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... woman , " How can I be silent , how can I rest , when Enkidu whom I love is dust , and I too shall die and be laid in the earth . You live by the seashore and look into the heart of it ; young woman , tell me now , which is the way to ...
... woman , " How can I be silent , how can I rest , when Enkidu whom I love is dust , and I too shall die and be laid in the earth . You live by the seashore and look into the heart of it ; young woman , tell me now , which is the way to ...
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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