Product details
ISBN
9780393321036
Published
2001-01-24
Publisher
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Weight
454 gr
Height
213 mm
Width
142 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
356
Author
Biographical note
Tom Lutz lives in Los Angeles and Iowa City, where he teaches at the University of Iowa. He is the author of American Nervousness, 1903: A History of Nervous Illness at the Turn of the Century.
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 science from the writings of Plato and Darwin to the paintings of Picasso to modern medical journals, he unearths the multiple meanings and uses of tears.
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"Highly readable. . . . A fascinating and thoughtful book."—Merle Rubin, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>
Product details
ISBN
9780393321036
Published
2001-01-24
Publisher
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Weight
454 gr
Height
213 mm
Width
142 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
356
Author