Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears

Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears

Tom Lutz

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UPC:
9780393321036
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Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2001-01-17
Author:
Tom Lutz
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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Highly readable. . . . A fascinating and thoughtful book. Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

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 todays 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. Illustrated

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