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 101
... soon . Last Saturday night , when I felt so sick , I felt rather sure that I would die quite soon , and perhaps very soon , within the next day or so . I did not at all welcome the prospect , but it filled me with no sense of panic . I ...
... soon . Last Saturday night , when I felt so sick , I felt rather sure that I would die quite soon , and perhaps very soon , within the next day or so . I did not at all welcome the prospect , but it filled me with no sense of panic . I ...
Page 177
... soon as we heard the cry we got up , my brother and I and my mother and father , and put on our clothes . We hurried ... soon as I saw that he was struggling to open his eyes I knew he was going to be all right and so could finish my ...
... soon as we heard the cry we got up , my brother and I and my mother and father , and put on our clothes . We hurried ... soon as I saw that he was struggling to open his eyes I knew he was going to be all right and so could finish my ...
Page 411
... soon as he had any unpleasantness with his wife , any lack of success in his official work , or held bad cards at bridge , he was at once acutely sensible of his disease . He had formerly borne such mischances , hoping soon to adjust ...
... soon as he had any unpleasantness with his wife , any lack of success in his official work , or held bad cards at bridge , he was at once acutely sensible of his disease . He had formerly borne such mischances , hoping soon to adjust ...
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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