(Non)omnis moriar
Subtitle: cultural and literary discourses of death and immortality
By: edited by Irmina Wawrzyczek and Aleksandra Kędzierska
Contributors: Ke̜dzierska, Aleksandra
Publisher: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9788377842362
Subjects: Death; Meditations; Cross-cultural studies
Other titles: Non omnis moriar; Cultural and literary discourses of death and immortality
Description: Few topics can rival Death as a constant preoccupation of humanity. In academia the drama of passing away has been examined from almost all disciplinary angles. This collection of essays presents the works of yet another group of scholars involved in the cultural study of death and of what happens when life is over. Individually the essays read the motifs of death and immortality in a number of distinct texts and contexts gladiatoral games the Quran Victorian novel West Indian poetry a pop song and a horror film. As a whole they demonstrate that across cultures and over time people ultimately want to believe - with Horace - that some part of them will evade the Goddess of Death. A thought-provoking book inviting the readers to ponder about their own mortality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.