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 133
... stopped and took him out . " " Pull up alongside , Jim . I'd better check . " How many times he had stopped to hide out a gale or to chat , and al- ways Calamity had taken out the carved walrus tusk which was the crib- bage board , and ...
... stopped and took him out . " " Pull up alongside , Jim . I'd better check . " How many times he had stopped to hide out a gale or to chat , and al- ways Calamity had taken out the carved walrus tusk which was the crib- bage board , and ...
Page 166
... stopped in the church on the way back to sit down and rest . I was dead - drunk and stone - sober and bone - tired , my head split and numbed by the plague of voices in eternal disputation . I knew why I was delaying my return to the ...
... stopped in the church on the way back to sit down and rest . I was dead - drunk and stone - sober and bone - tired , my head split and numbed by the plague of voices in eternal disputation . I knew why I was delaying my return to the ...
Page 389
... stopped and began to look at the corpse . The dead man lay , as dead men always lie , in a specially heavy way , his rigid limbs sunk in the soft cushions of the coffin , with the head forever bowed on the pillow . His yellow waxen brow ...
... stopped and began to look at the corpse . The dead man lay , as dead men always lie , in a specially heavy way , his rigid limbs sunk in the soft cushions of the coffin , with the head forever bowed on the pillow . His yellow waxen brow ...
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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