Death and illness in Aleksander Kuprin’s work (in view of social-physiological-cultural reflections)

Nel Bielniak




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.

Keywords:

śmierć, choroba, żałoba, obrzędy pogrzebowe, normy kulturowe

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Published
2014-12-30


Bielniak, N. (2014) “Death and illness in Aleksander Kuprin’s work (in view of social-physiological-cultural reflections)”, Studia Wschodniosłowiańskie, 14(14), pp. 15–28. doi: 10.15290/sw.2014.14.02.

Nel Bielniak