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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11315483.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-337) and index.".
- catalog description "Why tears? -- Tears of pleasure, tears of grace, and the weeping hero -- The crying body -- The psychology of tears -- Men and women, infants and children -- Cultures of mourning -- Tears of revenge, seduction, escape, and empathy -- Fictional tears -- The end of tears.".
- catalog extent "352 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393047563".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog subject "152.4 21".
- catalog subject "BF 575.C88 L975c 1999".
- catalog subject "BF575.C88 L87 1999".
- catalog subject "Crying History.".
- catalog subject "Crying.".
- catalog subject "Tears Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Tears.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Why tears? -- Tears of pleasure, tears of grace, and the weeping hero -- The crying body -- The psychology of tears -- Men and women, infants and children -- Cultures of mourning -- Tears of revenge, seduction, escape, and empathy -- Fictional tears -- The end of tears.".
- catalog title "Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears / Tom Lutz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".