Crying

Crying

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"Highly readable. . . . A fascinating and thoughtful book."—Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

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Crying by Tom Lutz

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780393321036
ISBN 10 0393321037
Title Crying
Author Tom Lutz
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 2001-01-24
Number of pages 356
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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