Death and Illness in Aleksandr Kuprin’s Work (In View of Social-Physiological-Cultural Reflections) Cover Image

Śmierć i choroba w opowiadaniach Aleksandra Kuprina (w świetle refleksji społeczno-psychologiczno-kulturowych)
Death and Illness in Aleksandr Kuprin’s Work (In View of Social-Physiological-Cultural Reflections)

Author(s): Nel Bielniak
Subject(s): Psychology, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Russian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: death; illness; mourning; funeral rites; cultural norms;

Summary/Abstract: In this article subject of death and illness in Aleksandr Kuprin’s work was presented mainly from biological point of view, treating death as tangible existential fact, which occurs in everyone’s life and which is affected by social and family position of a dying person. Hence, dying was pictured here as kind of a process consisting of number of physiological, social and cultural occurrences, interrelating and having effect on each other.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 15-28
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish