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 45
... play Death Knocks . Dressed in a black - hooded cape and skintight black clothes , Death appears in a New York apartment as a middle - aged , white male who has come to pick up Nat Ackerman . Ad- mitting that he can't play chess , he ...
... play Death Knocks . Dressed in a black - hooded cape and skintight black clothes , Death appears in a New York apartment as a middle - aged , white male who has come to pick up Nat Ackerman . Ad- mitting that he can't play chess , he ...
Page 176
... play . He liked to play " Sweet Georgia Brown , " and that was what he called me sometimes , and also he liked to play " Caldonia " and all sorts of sweet , sad , wonderful songs which he sometimes made up . It was from one of these ...
... play . He liked to play " Sweet Georgia Brown , " and that was what he called me sometimes , and also he liked to play " Caldonia " and all sorts of sweet , sad , wonderful songs which he sometimes made up . It was from one of these ...
Page 182
... play , Agamemnon , having returned victoriously from Troy with the slave Cassandra , was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra , who had planned the murder with her lover . Thus the entire play revolves around deaths by killing . In Oedipus ...
... play , Agamemnon , having returned victoriously from Troy with the slave Cassandra , was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra , who had planned the murder with her lover . Thus the entire play revolves around deaths by killing . In Oedipus ...
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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