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Death Representations in Literature : Forms and Theories.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Colección: | Dying and Death Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 132260777X 9781322607771 9781443872980 1443872989 |