Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying

By D.T. Siebert

Book Overview

D.T. Siebert's Mortality's Muse 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611494540
• ISBN13: 9781611494549
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"