Writing widowhood
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates—each of whom has written a memoir of spousal loss. In each chapter, Berman gives an overview of the writer's life and art before widowhood, including her early preoccupation with death, and then discusses the writer's memoir and her life as a widow. He discovers that writing was, for all of these authors, both a solace and a lifeline, enabling them to maintain bonds with their lost loved ones while simultaneously moving on with their lives. These memoirs of widowhood, Berman maintains, reveal not only courage and resilience in the face of loss, but also the critical role of writing and reading in bereavement and recovery.
כותר |
Writing widowhood : the landscapes of bereavement / Jeffrey Berman. |
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מוציא לאור |
Albany, New York : SUNY Press |
שנה |
2015 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "The Most Life-Changing Event" The Shock of Widowhood "People in Grief Become More Like Themselves" Continuing Bonds 1 Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story The Motives Behind Journal Writing Anorexia Raymond Smith Depression and Suicide Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy The Writing Cure Oates/Smith A Widow's Story "This Can't Be Happening" Self-Blame and Guilt Suicide The Basilisk "The Most Seductive of Literary Genres" Memoir or Journal? The Nest The Writer's Woundedness "A Solace and a Lifeline" JCO: "An Island, an Oasis" Dark Humor The Shattered Self The Mystery of Black Mass Dedicatory Grief "The Widows" "Probate" "Sourland" Love, Loss, and Recovery "Breach of Narrative Promise" Joyce Carol Gross Neuroscientist and Storyteller Life after Widowhood 2 Sandra M. Gilbert: Wrongful Death "Why Must Your Poems Be So Morbid?" "I'm a Widow" Marital Happiness Elliot Gilbert "How Mysteries Affect People" Acknowledging Spousal Help Wrongful Death "An Adverse Event" "I Couldn't Feel Worse if It Were Me Own Father" A Detective Mystery A Reliable Narrator and a Sympathetic Character The Aftermath of Loss Magical Thinking Self-Blame Grief Books Therese A. Rando Shrink Self-Healing in Death's Door Joyce Brothers Ghost Volcano and Aftermath: Elliot Gilbert's Continuing Presence Ruth Stone The Widow's Search for New Love Falling in Love Again David Gale "When She Was Kissed by the Mathematician" "After Math" 3 Gail Godwin: Evenings At Five The Making of a Writer "You Never Get Over It" Twice Married, Twice Divorced "I Do Not Believe I Can Do without a Man" "I Put Writing First Now" A Life in Music Meeting Gail Godwin Evenings at Five Setting Fire to Their Respective Lives "I Wonder What My Last Words Will Be" "Four Stimulating but Often Puzzling Parts of My Own Character" "We Still Have Some More Time Together" "Death Had Always Fascinated Rudy" "Two Old Hearts, Still Entwined" "Stop All Alcohol" Differences between Evenings at Five and A Widow's Story Completing the Story Pointers toward Wholeness 4 Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights Slouching towards Bethlehem Play It as It Lays A Book of Common Prayer The White Album Anti-Psychiatry Self-Help Books Dutch Shea, Jr. Adopted Daughters The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play Blue Nights Borderline Personality Disorder Fragments of a Novel The Ethics of Self-Disclosure Fear of Abandonment The "Delicate Life Dance" of Adopted Children Losing a Child "An Inadequate Adjustment to Aging" 5 Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same Mood Disorders and Creativity Coming Out of the Closet Richard Wyatt Exuberance Nothing Was the Same "Imperfect" A Love Story Gratitude "Words to Live By" Paying Back Debts Wyatt's Death "Thank You for Such Happiness" |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (246 p.) |
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אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2015 |
מספר מערכת |
997010719605705171 |
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