This book has traced depictions of Tibet and the Himalayas in four broad areas — politics, religion, people and natural environment — over the course of approximately one century.
Examining such a long period of time has allowed us to distinguish certain changes which surface in all four of these broad areas, albeit to a different extent. Scepticism, and even hostility, towards organized religion in Inner Asia was replaced by a growing appreciation of a more individually experienced spirituality.
While in the late nineteenth century Tibetan Buddhism had often come under attack for being mechanical, ignorant, superstitious and conducive to feudalism, interwar comments were much more frequently focused on the lessons Europe could draw from both the good and evil aspects of spirituality. This change was closely connected to a turn away from organized religions in Europe and the emergence of more and more individual theories and models of spirituality, such as those of Blavatsky or Ludendorff.
This change, however, was more ambivalent than that in the area of religion, as is demonstrated by the easy return to blatantly racist and jingoist stereotyping during the late s and s. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Skip to main content. In a non-fiction book, this section could be called the Conclusion. It might talk about what happened to the people mentioned in the book later or if the events in the book predated or caused other historically significant occurrences.
Both an epilogue and conclusion are written as if they were part of the book. If the point of view is different than that of the main text, then this section is properly termed an Afterword.
The Conclusion or Epilogue should only be a page or two. Assignment : Write the Conclusion of your book. Is everything summed up nicely? Are loose ends tied off? Will there be another book that continues the story? This would be the place to mention that. You are commenting using your WordPress.
Coda is the musical equivalent of an epilogue. Epilogues have their origin in ancient Greece, not in drama but in classical speeches. In fact, it was one of the four components of a speech, according to Aristotle :. How do epilogues compare to other endings, like afterwords, conclusions, outros, and codas?
An afterword may comment on the story or it may talk about the context in which the story was written. Epilogues and conclusions function the same, but conclusions tend to be found in nonfiction books, usually accompanied by an introduction chapter at the start of the book, whereas epilogues tend to be found in novels and memoirs. In fact I did an informal survey of ten of my favorite books on my bookshelf.
Two had explicit epilogues, three had chapters that acted as epilogues in that they jumped forward in time to reveal the fates of the main characters outside the normal narrative structure , and five did not have epilogues.
If your ending fits any of these, feel free to use an epilogue! What did I choose for my ending? When I was writing my book Crowdsourcing Paris , my memoir about a real-life adventure story I had in France, I chose to use.
Because in the ending, I flash back to a moment from a previous part of my story, and this jump was outside of the normal structure of my chapters. I also used a prologue to begin the book, and so it felt right to use an epilogue to end it. In other words, use an epilogue if you want to, but also realize that most epilogues are different in some way than the other chapters in your book, especially in length, style, tone, or point of view.
Take that into consideration, and you should be okay. Writers: Have you used an epilogue in a memoir or novel or a final chapter? Why did you make that choice? Let me know in the comments. Now, if this were the conclusion of a speech in Ancient Greece, this would be my moment to wax eloquently about the nature of endings, the sadness they bring but also the new possibilities they entail. Instead, I believe in putting what you learned to practice.
A Greek philosopher is giving a speech, and as he enters the epilogue he is. Write your epilogue for fifteen minutes. And if you post be sure to give feedback to at least three other writers.
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