Background
Guthke, Karl Siegfried was born on February 17, 1933 in Lingen, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1973. Son of Karl Hermann and Helene (Beekman) Guthke.
(An illustrated historical study of gendered personificati...)
An illustrated historical study of gendered personifications of death in Western art, literature, and culture.
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(This volume examines a number of facets of Western epitap...)
This volume examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America. Various epitaphic "sub-cultures" are analysed such as composing one's own tomb inscription.
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(In this illustrated historical survey of the image of dea...)
In this illustrated historical survey of the image of death in art and literature Karl S. Guthke assesses the significance of the various personifications of death in different ages and cultures, as male or female, enemy or lover, friend or avenger, angel or devil. Guthke shows that such images are reflections of the life and cultures that produced them, and through them he offers astonishing new insights into the nature and perception of the Western self in its cultural, intellectual, and literary context.
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(This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph ...)
This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America. Various epitaphic "sub-cultures" are analyzed, among them the time-honored custom of composing one's own tomb inscription as well as the ancient and modern convention of honoring animals with epitaphs. It also examines epitaph-collecting, epitaph "lies," humorous epitaphs, and the change in social and religious attitudes toward suicides. The book concludes with a cultural and intellectual history of epitaphs. An epilogue addresses the question of the supposed disappearance of epitaph culture at the present time.
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Guthke, Karl Siegfried was born on February 17, 1933 in Lingen, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1973. Son of Karl Hermann and Helene (Beekman) Guthke.
Master of Arts, University Texas, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Göttingen, Germany, 1956. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1968.
Faculty, University of California, Berkeley, 1956-1965; professor German literature, University of California at Berkeley, 1962-1965; professor German literature, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1965-1968; professor German literature, Harvard University, 1968-1978; Kuno Francke professor German art and culture, Harvard University, since 1978. Visiting professor U. Colorado, 1963, U. Massachusetts, 1967. Visiting fellow Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge U., National Research Center, Wolfenbüttel, Institute for Adv.Studies, U. Edinburgh, Humanities Research Center, Australian National U., Canberra.
(This volume examines a number of facets of Western epitap...)
(This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph ...)
(An illustrated historical study of gendered personificati...)
(In this illustrated historical survey of the image of dea...)
Fellow Humanities Research Center, Canberra Australia, Institute Advanced Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, Research Center, Wolfenbuttel. Member Lessing Society(past president), Institute Germanic Studies (London correspondent fellow).
Married Dagmar von Nostitz, April 24, 1965. 1 child, Carl Ricklef.