Autore	Vendler Helen <1933-2024>
Edizione	[Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (165 p.)
Disciplina	811.509 811/.5093548
Collana	The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts Bollingen series
Soggetto topico	American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism Death in literature
Soggetto non controllato	Adjective After Apple-Picking Allusion Amputation Ars Poetica (Horace) Asymmetry Because I could not stop for Death Bevel Binocular vision Bluebeard's Castle Burial Calcium carbonate Carbon monoxide Caspar David Friedrich Coffin Couplet Death and Life Death drive Death Deathbed Desiccation Diction Disjecta membra Dramatis Personae Elizabeth Bishop Emblem Emily Dickinson Emptiness Executive director Ezra Pound Fairy tale Fine art Grandparent Hexameter Human extinction Impermanence In Death In the Flesh (TV series) Incineration Irony James Merrill John Donne John Keats Lady Lazarus Lament Last Poems Lecture Life Studies Lycidas Macabre Melodrama Metaphor Microtome Misery (novel) Mourning Narcissism Narrative National Gallery of Art National Humanities Center Ottava rima Otto Plath Pentameter Phone sex Pity Plath Platitude Poetry Princeton University Press Psychotherapy Rhyme scheme Rhyme Rigor mortis Robert Lowell Sadness Sestet She Died Skirt Slowness (novel) Soliloquy Sonnet Stanza Subtraction Suffering Suicide attempt Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes Tercet Terza rima The Other Hand The Snapper (novel) Trepanning Tyvek Villanelle Vocation (poem) W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens Wasting William Shakespeare Writing
ISBN	1-282-53149-2 9786612531491 1-4008-3432-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books -- 2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's The Rock -- 3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- 4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by Day -- 5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III -- 6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts -- Notes -- The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952-2007
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910813758803321

Autore	Guthke Karl Siegfried <1933->
Edizione	[Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina	809/.93354
Collana	Princeton Legacy Library
Soggetto topico	Last words Death in literature Authors - Death
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-691-62855-6 1-282-75158-1 9786612751585 1-4008-2071-5 1-4008-1189-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the English Version -- 1. LAST WORDS IN EVERYDAY CULTURE -- 2. WHY THE INTEREST IN LAST WORDS? -- 3. PORK-PIE OR FATHERLAND: AUTHENTIC OR BEN TROVATO? -- 4. GUIDANCE, ENTERTAINMENT, AND FRISSON -- 5. AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF LAST WORDS? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455522903321

Autore	Appleford Amy <1970->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	820.9/3548
Collana	Middle Ages Series
Soggetto topico	English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism Death in literature Death - England - London Death - England - London - Psychological aspects Death - Political aspects - England - London
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8122-9047-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Note on Quotations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Spiritual Governance and the Lay Household: The Visitation of the Sick -- Chapter 2. Dying Generations: The Dance of Death -- Chapter 3. Self-Care and Lay Asceticism: Learn to Die -- Chapter 4. Wounded Texts and Worried Readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying -- Chapter 5. The Exercise of Death in Henrician England -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459707903321

Autore	Derderian Katharine <1970->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina	880.9/3548
Collana	Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum
Soggetto topico	Greek literature - History and criticism Death in literature Funeral rites and ceremonies - Greece Mourning customs - Greece - History Written communication - Greece Mourning customs in literature Grief in literature Literacy - Greece
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-46431-3 9786610464319 1-4175-9078-5 90-474-0045-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNSPEAKABLE LAMENT: THE HOMERIC ΓOOΣ AND THE HEROES -- THE ARCHAIC EPIGRAM AND THE ADVENT OF WRITING -- ΓRAMMATA ΛEΓONTA TAΔE: CASE STUDIES IN CLASSICAL MOURNING -- THE EPITAPHIOS LOGOS AND MOURNING IN THE ATHENIAN POLIS -- SOME CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh , D.M. Schenkeveld and P.H. Schrijvers.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450233503321