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 46
... humans of their pain and take them to heaven where they can be comforted . Somerset Maugham personifies death as a woman who engages in human conversation , sometimes associates with humans in crowds , and keeps appointments with humans ...
... humans of their pain and take them to heaven where they can be comforted . Somerset Maugham personifies death as a woman who engages in human conversation , sometimes associates with humans in crowds , and keeps appointments with humans ...
Page 70
... human - beings which he had killed since a century ago and showed me many other things also , but there I saw that he was using skeleton bones of human - beings as fuel woods and skull heads of human - beings as his basins , plates and ...
... human - beings which he had killed since a century ago and showed me many other things also , but there I saw that he was using skeleton bones of human - beings as fuel woods and skull heads of human - beings as his basins , plates and ...
Page 349
... human bodies die , most jivas are recycled by being attached to other human bodies or other vehicles of incarnation . Only those jivas that at- tain liberation ( moksha ) are released from the cycle of births and deaths and escape to be ...
... human bodies die , most jivas are recycled by being attached to other human bodies or other vehicles of incarnation . Only those jivas that at- tain liberation ( moksha ) are released from the cycle of births and deaths and escape to be ...
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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