Death in LiteratureThis 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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... father . Whatever I can tell you . Because your mother's not feeling well . " Now I'll know when he is coming home , Catherine thought . All through breakfast , Rufus had wanted to ask questions , but now he felt so shy and uneasy that ...
... father . Whatever I can tell you . Because your mother's not feeling well . " Now I'll know when he is coming home , Catherine thought . All through breakfast , Rufus had wanted to ask questions , but now he felt so shy and uneasy that ...
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... father like that . Poor little things , he remembered his mother's voice comforting his crying , hurt so terribly that God just let them go to sleep . If it was in the auto , Catherine thought , then he wouldn't be in the slop jar ...
... father like that . Poor little things , he remembered his mother's voice comforting his crying , hurt so terribly that God just let them go to sleep . If it was in the auto , Catherine thought , then he wouldn't be in the slop jar ...
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... father reached him as he lay expiring ... " To hell with dying , man , " my father would say , pushing the wife away from the bedside ( in tears although she knew the death was not necessarily the last one unless Mr. Sweet really wanted ...
... father reached him as he lay expiring ... " To hell with dying , man , " my father would say , pushing the wife away from the bedside ( in tears although she knew the death was not necessarily the last one unless Mr. Sweet really wanted ...
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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