Crying  -  Tom Lutz

The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

KORTE INHOUD

A natural and cultural history of crying probes this phenomenon from every angle, using the work of philosophers, poets, scholars, scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists to trace the changing meaning of tears throughout the years.

In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. to the tears found in today’s films. Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and sci...
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1999 Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company 352 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0393047563 ISBN-13: 9780393047561