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 103
... mind immediately is how fast cancer alienates one from the usual routines and behavior . I suppose I'm less alive than I was yesterday and by tomorrow I'll be dying more than I am today . Not in the manner of the old cliché that you ...
... mind immediately is how fast cancer alienates one from the usual routines and behavior . I suppose I'm less alive than I was yesterday and by tomorrow I'll be dying more than I am today . Not in the manner of the old cliché that you ...
Page 381
... mind . Bits of memory came floating - a gesture of Brown's , the toy house in the dentist's front room , Rangappa with a garland , and the ring of many speeches and voices - all this was gently overwhelmed and swept aside , till one's mind ...
... mind . Bits of memory came floating - a gesture of Brown's , the toy house in the dentist's front room , Rangappa with a garland , and the ring of many speeches and voices - all this was gently overwhelmed and swept aside , till one's mind ...
Page 434
... mind had alternated from the very beginning of his illness , but the further it progressed the more doubtful and fantastic be- came the conception of the kidney , and the more real the sense of im- pending death . He had but to call to mind ...
... mind had alternated from the very beginning of his illness , but the further it progressed the more doubtful and fantastic be- came the conception of the kidney , and the more real the sense of im- pending death . He had but to call to mind ...
Contents
DEATH PERSONIFIED | 43 |
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 61 |
PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DYING | 72 |
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