E-Book, Englisch, Band 5193, 264 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Guthke Last Words
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Variations on a Theme in Cultural History
E-Book, Englisch, Band 5193, 264 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2071-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Preface
A Note on the English Version
1 Last Words in Everyday Culture: Forms and Meaning of a Convention in Life and Letters 3
2 Why the Interest in Last Words?: Completion, Immortality, Mystique 48
3 Pork-Pie or Fatherland: Authentic or Ben Trovato?: The Last Words as Artifact and "Inherited Mythology" 67
4 Guidance, Entertainment, and Frisson: Anthologies of Last Words 98
5 An Intellectual History of Last Words?: Landmarks in Uncharted Terrain 155
Notes 191
Select Bibliography 229
Index 236