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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Berman |
| ISBN: | 1558491953 9781558491953 1558492119 9781558492110 |
| OCLC Number: | 40255864 |
| Description: | xii, 290 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: soul mates and silent suffering -- English 745: literary suicide 1994 -- Romanticizing suicide in Kate Chopin's Awakening -- Virginia Woolf and the "Embrace of death" -- Ernest Hemingway's suicideophobia -- Sylvia Plath and the charge of art -- Anne Sexton and the poetics of suicide -- William Styron and the landscape of depression -- Conclusion: returning from the dead -- Appendix: "Elegy for a suicide: writing and a suicide survivor". |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey Berman. |
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