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Pages 103-132 | Published online: 09 Jan 2007
 

Notes

Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 13.

For further discussion, see Stephen Harris, The Humanistic Tradition in World Literature: An Anthology of Masterpieces From Gilgamesh to The Divine Comedy (Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1970).

The relationship between afterlife and transformation is explored by Marina Warner, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Geoffrey Halt Harpham, The Asectic Imperative in Culture and Criticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V.E. Watts (New York: Penguin, 1969).

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, trans. James Strachey (New York: Norton, 1961).

In the mythos of antiquity, Thanatos often was personified as an agent of natural death as opposed to sleep (Hyponos) and violent death (Keres). This deity's power to transport and transform life is symbolized by his winged appearance.

George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 27.

Charles Cuttler, Northern Painting From Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Hotl Rinehart and Winston, 1968).

Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).

Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 46.

W.H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Medelson (New York: Random House, 1976), 888.

  Stephanie Houston Grey

Michigan State University

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