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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-009.mrc:135518758:1551
Source marc_columbia
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm51613959
035 $a(NNC)4098283
035 $a4098283
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aCN55$b.G88 2003
082 00 $a393/.1$221
100 1 $aGuthke, Karl Siegfried,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81148971
245 10 $aEpitaph culture in the West :$bvariations on a theme in cultural history /$cKarl S. Guthke.
260 $aLewiston, N.Y. :$bEdwin Mellen Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $ax, 416 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Cultural Memory: Verities and Curiosities of Epitaph Lore -- $gI.$tAnthologies of Epitaphs: Motivations and Uses -- $gII.$t"Lying Like an Epitaph"? The Ethics of Dishonesty -- $gIII.$tDo-It-Yourself Immortality: Writing One's Own Epitaph -- $gIV.$tLast Laughs: Levity in the Cemetery -- $gV.$tTalking Stones: Last Words on Suicides -- $gVI.$t"Almost Human - but Loyal": Epitaphs on Animals -- $gVII.$tWho Were We, or Who Are We? A History of Epitaphs -- $tEpilogue: The Silence of the Tombs: The Epitaph Vanishes, or Does It?
650 0 $aEpitaphs$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117503
852 00 $bglx$hCN55$i.G88 2003