Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Bereavement in literature Children - Death Parental grief Authors, American - Psychology Death - United States - Psychological aspects - History - 19th century Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461032203321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Bereavement in literature Children - Death Parental grief Authors, American - Psychology Death - United States - Psychological aspects - History - 19th century Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797965103321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 | ||
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Bereavement in literature Children - Death Parental grief Authors, American - Psychology Death - United States - Psychological aspects - History - 19th century Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821082803321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina |
810.9
810.9/3548 810.935480904 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PerdigaoLisa K
PizzatoMark <1960-> |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Ghosts in literature Death in mass media |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-15444-4
1-282-45425-0 9786612454257 0-7546-9602-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Studying the Corpse; 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez: Dark Root of a Scream; 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution: The Black and White Murder Film, Dutchman; 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death; 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between; PART II Tracing Ghosts; 5 Thornton Wilder's "Eternal Present": Ghosting and the Grave Body in Act III of Our Town; 6 When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger; 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life
8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind's EyePART III Reanimating the Dead; 9 "For the Union Dead": Robert Lowell's American Necropolis; 10 Locating the Front Line; 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo's America; 12 "Everything now is measured by after": A Postmortem for the Twenty-First Century; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457107903321 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
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Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina |
810.9
810.9/3548 810.935480904 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PerdigaoLisa K
PizzatoMark <1960-> |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Ghosts in literature Death in mass media |
ISBN |
1-317-15445-2
1-315-57596-5 1-317-15444-4 1-282-45425-0 9786612454257 0-7546-9602-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Studying the Corpse; 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez: Dark Root of a Scream; 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution: The Black and White Murder Film, Dutchman; 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death; 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between; PART II Tracing Ghosts; 5 Thornton Wilder's "Eternal Present": Ghosting and the Grave Body in Act III of Our Town; 6 When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger; 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life
8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind's EyePART III Reanimating the Dead; 9 "For the Union Dead": Robert Lowell's American Necropolis; 10 Locating the Front Line; 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo's America; 12 "Everything now is measured by after": A Postmortem for the Twenty-First Century; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781058203321 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
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Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina |
810.9
810.9/3548 810.935480904 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PerdigaoLisa K
PizzatoMark <1960-> |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Death in literature Ghosts in literature Death in mass media |
ISBN |
1-317-15445-2
1-315-57596-5 1-317-15444-4 1-282-45425-0 9786612454257 0-7546-9602-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Studying the Corpse; 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez: Dark Root of a Scream; 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution: The Black and White Murder Film, Dutchman; 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death; 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between; PART II Tracing Ghosts; 5 Thornton Wilder's "Eternal Present": Ghosting and the Grave Body in Act III of Our Town; 6 When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger; 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life
8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind's EyePART III Reanimating the Dead; 9 "For the Union Dead": Robert Lowell's American Necropolis; 10 Locating the Front Line; 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo's America; 12 "Everything now is measured by after": A Postmortem for the Twenty-First Century; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811242403321 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
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Dying in character : memoirs on the end of life / / Jeffrey Berman |
Autore | Berman Jeffrey <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Critically ill - United States - History and criticism Terminally ill - United States - History and criticism Autobiography Death in literature Self in literature Death - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-215-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463397303321 |
Berman Jeffrey <1945->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 | ||
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Dying in character : memoirs on the end of life / / Jeffrey Berman |
Autore | Berman Jeffrey <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Critically ill - United States - History and criticism Terminally ill - United States - History and criticism Autobiography Death in literature Self in literature Death - Psychological aspects |
ISBN | 1-61376-215-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788495503321 |
Berman Jeffrey <1945->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 | ||
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Dying in character : memoirs on the end of life / / Jeffrey Berman |
Autore | Berman Jeffrey <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Critically ill - United States - History and criticism Terminally ill - United States - History and criticism Autobiography Death in literature Self in literature Death - Psychological aspects |
ISBN | 1-61376-215-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810759503321 |
Berman Jeffrey <1945->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 | ||
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Kindred specters [[electronic resource] ] : death, mourning, and American affinity / / Christopher Peterson |
Autore | Peterson Christopher <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Soggetto topico |
Death in literature
Mourning customs in literature Kinship in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8166-5394-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Giving up the geist -- Beloved's claim -- The haunted house of kinship -- The kinship of strangers, or beyond affiliation. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452211603321 |
Peterson Christopher <1972->
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 | ||
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