Death and the HumanitiesBucknell University Press, 1984 - 238 pages Examines the variety of treatments of the theme of death in the works of painters, sculptors, novelists, poets, and composers. |
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... Dying Warrior . Fig . 15 Hellenistic Greek . Dying Gaul . Fig . 16 Marsden Hartley . Portrait of a German Officer . Francisco Goya . The Disasters of War , No. 36 : Nor This Tampoco . 51 52 70 72 73 81 Fig . 18 Peter Paul Rubens . The ...
... Dying Warrior . Fig . 15 Hellenistic Greek . Dying Gaul . Fig . 16 Marsden Hartley . Portrait of a German Officer . Francisco Goya . The Disasters of War , No. 36 : Nor This Tampoco . 51 52 70 72 73 81 Fig . 18 Peter Paul Rubens . The ...
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... Dying , " by Larry Rubin , first printed in The Saturday Review and The Sewanee Review , and reprinted in The World's Old Way by University of Nebraska Press , by permission of Mr. Rubin . " I Never Saw a Moor , " by Emily Dickinson ...
... Dying , " by Larry Rubin , first printed in The Saturday Review and The Sewanee Review , and reprinted in The World's Old Way by University of Nebraska Press , by permission of Mr. Rubin . " I Never Saw a Moor , " by Emily Dickinson ...
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... dying . Rather , this work is devoted to experiences and reflections upon death as transmitted by the expressive forms of art , music , and literature . Further , it is a study of the collective imagination created and reflected by ...
... dying . Rather , this work is devoted to experiences and reflections upon death as transmitted by the expressive forms of art , music , and literature . Further , it is a study of the collective imagination created and reflected by ...
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... dying assumed to be sociological , medical , or legal in nature are as suitably under- stood through the humanities . The book is primarily directed to a general readership and those professinals in medical , legal , and sociological ...
... dying assumed to be sociological , medical , or legal in nature are as suitably under- stood through the humanities . The book is primarily directed to a general readership and those professinals in medical , legal , and sociological ...
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