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Lament for an Ocean
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Pages: 452
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-09 - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, the cod is now on the brink of extin
Lament
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Ann Suter
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the af
The Seafarer
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Ida L. Gordon
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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The City Lament
Language: en
Pages: 131
Authors: Tamar M. Boyadjian
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Margaret Alexiou
Categories: Funeral rites and ceremonies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sou