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Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve
- Title
- Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Author
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 06-3045 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxv, 580 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then).
- Call Number
- JFE 06-3045
- ISBN
- 0393051315
- LCCN
- 2004065430
- OCLC
- 57316831
- vendorOCM57316831
- Author
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Title
- Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-3045