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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... keep , and a time to cast away ; a time to rend , and a time to sew ; a time to keep silence , and a time to speak ; a time to love , and a time to hate ; a time for war , and a time for peace . What gain has the worker from his toil ...
... keep , and a time to cast away ; a time to rend , and a time to sew ; a time to keep silence , and a time to speak ; a time to love , and a time to hate ; a time for war , and a time for peace . What gain has the worker from his toil ...
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... keep with the keeper of the golden gates . Hold hands and kiss , it will never come again , look in your own eyes and remember the deep pain , how hollow the world is , like a bubble burst , yes , and all beauty by some wretchedness ...
... keep with the keeper of the golden gates . Hold hands and kiss , it will never come again , look in your own eyes and remember the deep pain , how hollow the world is , like a bubble burst , yes , and all beauty by some wretchedness ...
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... keep to the treatment prescribed for him . One day he'll take his drops and keep strictly to his diet and go to bed in good time , but the next day unless I watch him he'll suddenly forget his medicine , eat stur- geon - which is ...
... keep to the treatment prescribed for him . One day he'll take his drops and keep strictly to his diet and go to bed in good time , but the next day unless I watch him he'll suddenly forget his medicine , eat stur- geon - which is ...
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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