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Behind this darkening of the mind, however, there lies another darkening, of our picture of the ancient sources of European literature. Antiquity, formerly given over to the Ego, becomes itself the province of the Id. Roughly speaking, a sunlit, rational, enlightened world, peopled as it were by marble figures in a state of tranquil felicity (think of Winckelmann) was replaced, retrospectively ...
Dec 27, 2019 · The gods’ game of life and death is probably the most ‘universal’ theme in existence; and no period or mode of literature has neglected to engage with their slave Time. 12 Indeed, time and death are not easily uncoupled, since their relationship is both antithetical and mutually constitutive.
- Anna Vaninskaya
- anna.vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk
- 2020
Aug 19, 2012 · Death. In Poetics, Aristotle recognized literature’s value for humanity when he stated that “the object of art is an imitation of life.” Writers have always used the situations and events of everyday life in their writing, and since death is just as much a part of life as anything else, it is arguably one of the most recurring themes in all of literature.
The fact that the title of Stoppard’s play condemns Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death before the play has even begun – in a line taken from Shakespeare’s play – is oddly fitting, not just because it signals the various textual echoes of Shakespeare’s original found in Stoppard’s own play but because it overlays everything that the two characters do with a sense of futility.
4 days ago · An excellent example of a literary work where death is one of the central themes is Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado. The topic of death is also characteristic of African American literature. It often focuses on the arc of mourning, such as in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Oct 22, 2019 · Abstract People worry a lot about death—about how to avoid it, of course, but. also how to think about it. As they develop cognitiv ely from the onset of. conscious awareness in early childhood ...
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Oct 22, 2019 · Horror literature is a genre dedicated to the task of evoking extreme fear, sometimes modulated by disgust (Clasen, 2017). Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies, demons, knife-wielding psychopaths, and malignant forces lurking in the hearts of humans—these are the standard dramatis personae of horror.
