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 40
... whole world was topsy - turvy , the whole order of things was capsized . Not yet dead , she had to take leave of her husband , her son , her daughter , her grandson and her work - although this work would now thunder over her and ...
... whole world was topsy - turvy , the whole order of things was capsized . Not yet dead , she had to take leave of her husband , her son , her daughter , her grandson and her work - although this work would now thunder over her and ...
Page 127
... whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world ; And I , the last , go forth companionless , And the days darken round me , and the years , Among new men , strange faces , other minds . " And slowly answered ...
... whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world ; And I , the last , go forth companionless , And the days darken round me , and the years , Among new men , strange faces , other minds . " And slowly answered ...
Page 436
... whole life has really been wrong ? " It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before , namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done , might after all be true . It occurred to him that his scarcely ...
... whole life has really been wrong ? " It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before , namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done , might after all be true . It occurred to him that his scarcely ...
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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