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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Page 347
... soul ( psyche ) is liberated from its bodily prison and escapes to another , perfect realm of existence . Operat- ing with a dualistic view of human nature , Plato believed the soul to be pre - existent , eternal , immutable , separate ...
... soul ( psyche ) is liberated from its bodily prison and escapes to another , perfect realm of existence . Operat- ing with a dualistic view of human nature , Plato believed the soul to be pre - existent , eternal , immutable , separate ...
Page 361
... soul does not perish when the body dies . Because both Socrates and Plato operated with a dualistic theory of human nature , they believed that death was an event of liberation in which the soul was set free from its bodily prison to ...
... soul does not perish when the body dies . Because both Socrates and Plato operated with a dualistic theory of human nature , they believed that death was an event of liberation in which the soul was set free from its bodily prison to ...
Page 383
... soul's immortality , perhaps by photographing the soul as it left a dead body . He disappeared in 1949 and was declared legally dead the following year . Several years later bank auditors dis- covered Kidd's handwritten will and ...
... soul's immortality , perhaps by photographing the soul as it left a dead body . He disappeared in 1949 and was declared legally dead the following year . Several years later bank auditors dis- covered Kidd's handwritten will and ...
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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