03498nam 2200685 450 991081075950332120200520144314.01-61376-215-1(CKB)3170000000060874(EBL)4533138(SSID)ssj0000885397(PQKBManifestationID)11482748(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885397(PQKBWorkID)10953616(PQKB)11327213(OCoLC)859686947(MdBmJHUP)muse25035(Au-PeEL)EBL4533138(CaPaEBR)ebr11214608(MiAaPQ)EBC4533138(EXLCZ)99317000000006087420160610h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDying in character memoirs on the end of life /Jeffrey BermanAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :University of Massachusetts Press,2012.©20121 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55849-964-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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".Authors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticismAmerican prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCritically illUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticismTerminally illUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticismAutobiographyDeath in literatureSelf in literatureDeathPsychological aspectsAuthors, AmericanHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Critically illHistory and criticism.Terminally illHistory and criticism.Autobiography.Death in literature.Self in literature.DeathPsychological aspects.810.9/3548Berman Jeffrey1945-1617145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810759503321Dying in character3958017UNINA