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Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature

by Beth Ann Bassein

Pages: 246

Contributors: Beth Ann Bassein

Publisher: Greenwood Press

Place of Publication: Westport, CT

Publication Year: 1984

Subjects: Women In Literature,Death,Women And Death

Table of Contents

Title Page

Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Contents

Preface

I Language as Diminisher and Destroyer

Notes

II Christianity as Facilitator

Notes

III Women as Memento Mori

Notes

IV Poe's Most Poetic Subject

Notes

V Adultery and Death

Notes

VI The Death Aura Perpetuated in Modern Poetry

Notes

VII Twentieth-Century Fiction

Notes

VIII Topographical and Astronomical Images in Adrienne Rich's Poetry

Notes

IX Afterword

Appendix

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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