Death in LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1980 - 451 pages 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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Page 49
... followed him : Being so bold in wifely purity , So holy by her love : and so upheld , She followed him . Presently Yama turned . " Go back , " quoth he ; " pay him the funeral dues . Enough , O Savitri ! is wrought for love ; Go back ...
... followed him : Being so bold in wifely purity , So holy by her love : and so upheld , She followed him . Presently Yama turned . " Go back , " quoth he ; " pay him the funeral dues . Enough , O Savitri ! is wrought for love ; Go back ...
Page 310
... followed without thinking about it . I made up my mind right there and then to leave instructions that I was to have a closed casket . I was to have a closed casket . The words bounced around my head like a tennis ball gone wild ...
... followed without thinking about it . I made up my mind right there and then to leave instructions that I was to have a closed casket . I was to have a closed casket . The words bounced around my head like a tennis ball gone wild ...
Page 430
... followed . Lisa asked her mother about the opera - glasses , and there was an alterca- tion between mother and daughter as to who had taken them and where they had been put . This occasioned some unpleasantness . Fedor Petrovich ...
... followed . Lisa asked her mother about the opera - glasses , and there was an alterca- tion between mother and daughter as to who had taken them and where they had been put . This occasioned some unpleasantness . Fedor Petrovich ...
Contents
DEATH PERSONIFIED | 43 |
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 61 |
PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DYING | 72 |
Copyright | |
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