Title: Mortality's Muse
Description: D.T. Siebert's Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying demonstrates how art, literature in particular, addresses that most fundamental of human fears-mortal anxiety. Various aspects of culture and thought come into play: from the psychological, theological, and philosophical to the literary, all brought together under the idea and ideal of the aesthetic.
Subjects: Literature, history and criticism, Death in literature, Death in art, Literature, History and criticism