Crying: A Natural and Cultural History

Book Title Crying: A Natural and Cultural History
Author Name Tom Lutz
Publishing house W. W. Norton & Company;
Country – city USA
Date of issue 2001
Number of pages 356

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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. Illustrated

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