Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, par l'autheur des "Dialogues des morts" [Bernard de Fontenelle.].
Author: Bernard de FontenellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 144
Book Description
Death Representations in Literature
Author: Adriana TeodorescuPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443872989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
If the academic field of death studies is a prosperous one, there still seems to be a level of mistrust concerning the capacity of literature to provide socially relevant information about death and to help improve the anthropological understanding of how culture is shaped by the human condition of mortality. Furthermore, the relationship between literature and death tends to be trivialized, in the sense that death representations are interpreted in an over-aestheticized manner. As such, this approach has a propensity to consider death in literature to be significant only for literary studies, and gives rise to certain persistent clichés, such as the power of literature to annihilate death. This volume overcomes such stereotypes, and reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh and accurate ways of interrogating death as a steady and unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction. The volume brings together researchers from various countries – the USA, the UK, France, Poland, New Zealand, Canada, India, Germany, Greece, and Romania – with different academic backgrounds in fields as diverse as literature, art history, social studies, criminology, musicology, and cultural studies, and provides answers to questions such as: What are the features of death representations in certain literary genres? Is it possible to speak of an homogeneous vision of death in the case of some literary movements? How do writers perceive, imagine, and describe their death through their personal diaries, or how do they metabolize the death of the “significant others” through their writings? To what extent does the literary representation of death refer to the extra-fictional, socio-historically constructed “Death”? Is it moral to represent death in children’s literature? What are the differences and similarities between representing death in literature and death representations in other connected fields? Are metaphors and literary representations of death forms of death denial, or, on the contrary, a more insightful way of capturing the meaning of death?
Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature
Author: Laura PavelPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564786390
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
It wasn't until after Dumitru Tsepeneag fled Romania for France in 1971 that he was able to speak frankly about the literary movement that he had helped create.
Death
Author: Francoise DasturPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485114874
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Plato's Phaedo, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Heidegger's Being and Time are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the idea that to practise philosophy is to practise how to die. Francoise Dastur's study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Nietzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Professor Dastur also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.
Entretiens Sur La Puralité Des Mondes, Augmentés Des Dialogues Des Morts
Author: Bernard Le Bovier “de” FontenellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 432
Book Description
Dialogues des morts, suivis du: Jugement de Pluton
Author: Bernard le Bovier de FontenellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 204
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.