Death's DoorDeath's Door
Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
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Book, 2006
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Current format, Book, 2006, 1st ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsA cultural exploration of modern humanity's relationship with death as reflected in literature, history, and societal practices evaluates how perceptions about death and the experience of grief have changed throughout the past century, citing the influence of such events as Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the September 11 attacks. Reprint.
Explores modern humanity's relationship with death as reflected in literature, history, and society, evaluating how perceptions about death and the experience of grief have changed, citing the influence of such events as Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the September 11 attacks.
Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change;and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that barely change from age to age? Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." This inevitability has left varying marks on all human cultures. Exploring expressions of faith, burial customs, photographs, poems, and memoirs, acclaimed author Sandra M. Gilbert brings to the topic of death the critical skill that won her fame for The Madwoman in the Attic and other books, as she examines both the changelessness of grief and the changing customs that mark contemporary mourning.
"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get." -Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review
New York Times Book Review
The Madwoman in the Attic
Explores modern humanity's relationship with death as reflected in literature, history, and society, evaluating how perceptions about death and the experience of grief have changed, citing the influence of such events as Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the September 11 attacks.
Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change;and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that barely change from age to age? Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." This inevitability has left varying marks on all human cultures. Exploring expressions of faith, burial customs, photographs, poems, and memoirs, acclaimed author Sandra M. Gilbert brings to the topic of death the critical skill that won her fame for The Madwoman in the Attic and other books, as she examines both the changelessness of grief and the changing customs that mark contemporary mourning.
"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get." -Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review
New York Times Book Review
The Madwoman in the Attic
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- New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
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