عنوان

Dying in character :

(Number (ISBN

1613762151

(Number (ISBN

9781613762158

Erroneous ISBN

1558499644

Erroneous ISBN

1558499652

Erroneous ISBN

9781558499645

Erroneous ISBN

9781558499652

Title Proper

Dying in character :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

memoirs on the end of life /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jeffrey Berman.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amherst :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Massachusetts Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (336 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: "It is when faced with death that we turn most bookish" -- "I never saw or heard the car coming": my close call with death -- "Death itself is a wonderful and positive experience": Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The wheel of life -- "With autobiography there's always another text, a countertext": Philip Roth and Patrimony -- "Death confers a certain beauty on one's hours": Harold Brodkey and This wild darkness -- "I have never been tempted to write about my own life": Susan Sontag, David Rieff, and Swimming in a sea of death -- "Sleeplessness for me is a cherished state": Edward W. Said and Out of place -- "There is more than one sort of luck": Tony Judt and The memory chalet -- "I never realized dying could be so much fun": Art Buchwald and Too soon to say goodbye -- "Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die": Morrie Schwartz's Letting go and Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie -- "I'm dying and I'm having fun": Randy Pausch and The last lecture -- "Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories": Jean-Dominique Bauby and The diving bell and The butterfly -- "I live in my suffering and that makes me happy": Roland Barthes and Mourning diary -- Conclusion: "alive when I died."

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JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt5n1dkv

Title

Dying in character.

International Standard Book Number

1558499652

American prose literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Authors, American-- Biography-- History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Critically ill-- United States-- Biography-- History and criticism.

Death in literature.

Death-- Psychological aspects.

Self in literature.

Terminally ill-- United States-- Biography-- History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Authors, American-- Biography.

Autobiography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.

Death in literature.

Death-- Psychological aspects.

Self in literature.

United States.

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LIT004020

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Berman, Jeffrey,1945-

Date of Transaction

20200823043218.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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