Tears of revenge, seduction, escape, and empathyįirst published as a Norton Paperback edition, 2001.Tears of pleasure, tears of grace, and the weeping hero.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.ĭespite our most common romantic assumptions, this brilliant book tells us that tears are never pure, and that they are never simple."-BOOK JACKET.
Psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists all have their theories. Philosophers from Plato and Aristotle through Descartes, William James, and Sartre have. through tears found in today's films, advertisements, and therapies. 'Crying' looks at the way people have understood weeping from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. 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. Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears. "Crying looks at the way people have understood weeping from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears / Tom Lutz Book Bib ID Arrives by Thu, Mar 30 Buy Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780393047561) by Thomas Lutz, Tom Lutz at.
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