Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears

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Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears

Title remainder

the natural and cultural history of tears

Statement of responsibility

Tom Lutz

Creator

• trueLutz, Tom

Subject

• Crying
• trueCrying -- History
• History
• trueCrying
• Popular works

Genre

• truePopular works
• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

"Crying looks at the way people have understood weeping from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through tears found in today's films, advertisements, and therapies. Philosophers from Plato and Aristotle through Descartes, William James, and Sartre have attempted to explain tears, as have physiologists from Hippocrates through Darwin and contemporary neurophysiologists and ophthalmologists. Psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists all have their theories. In addition to consolidating these theories, Tom Lutz also examines paintings from medieval times through Picasso, literary texts from Homer and Shakespeare through the sentimental writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, and films from the "weepies" of the 1930s through Titanic to unearth the multifaceted meanings of tears. Despite our most common romantic assumptions, this brilliant book tells us that tears are never pure, and that they are never simple."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

152.4

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF575.C88

LC item number

L87 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

BF 575.C88

NLM item number

L975c 1999