Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs: Swedish Funerary Poetry for Animals 1670-1760
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- Daniel M�ller
- Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
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- 9783631659250
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- Literary Criticism > European - German
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When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin's poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being - one of the eighteenth century's most common poetic genres. Kersti Berg, however, was a dog, and Dalin's poem belongs to another genre, namely, the animal epitaph. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this was a frequently practised form of poetry which could be used for a great many purposes, from imitations of ancient originals to masked poems composed to convey a political message or to further the writer's career.
Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs: Swedish Funerary Poetry for Animals 1670-1760
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