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An investigation into the dying words of both famous and ordinary people examines the human fascination with the need for closure, the desire for immortality, and the attraction to the mystique of death scenes
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Whether or not Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed ... last words, regardless of their authenticity, have long captured our imaginations. Here Karl Guthke explores the cultural importance of those words spoken at the border between this world and the next.
"Last Words ... is filled with zesty farewells from just this side of the grave.... A stimulating tome shot through with grisly black humor and goosey trivia."--Boston Phoenix Literary Supplement
Contenuti
| 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 |
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