Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief. -- Death opens -- All Souls' Day -- A door opens -- On the threshold -- Voices -- Widow -- Phone call -- Keening/kissing -- Plath's etymology -- Sati -- The widower's Exequy -- The widow's lament -- The widow's desire -- Mr. Lowell and the spider -- Yahrzeit -- Why is this day different from other days? -- Caring for the dead -- Gravestones -- The buried life -- The buried self -- E-mail to the dead -- The hypothetical life -- Purgatories -- Textual resurrections -- Psychic research -- Letters to the virtual world -- Allas the Deeth -- Writing wrong -- Keynote -- Weep and write -- THIS is the curse. Write -- You must be wicked to deserve such pain -- A hole in the heart -- Impossible to tell.
History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning. -- Expiration/termination -- "Modern death" -- "Expiration" vs. "termination" -- Ash Wednesday -- Timor mortis -- Ghosts of heaven -- Nada -- The souls of animals -- Technologies of death -- Extermination -- Conditio inhumana -- Annihilation in history -- The great war and the city of death -- Hell on earth -- The German requiem -- 8. Technologies of dying -- In the hospital spaceship -- Questions of technology -- The inhospitable hospital -- The doctor's detachment -- What Vivian is bearing -- 9. A day in the death of ... -- Chronology number 1: recording death -- Chronology number 2: death watching -- Chronology number 3: home movies -- Chronology number 4: flashbulb memories -- The celluloid afterlife -- Death and the camera -- Seeing and believing -- Mortality on display -- Haunting photographs -- Millennial mourning -- A prayer flag -- Mourning becomes electronic -- The embarrassment of the comforter -- The shame of the mourner -- Mourning as malarkey -- Ritual offerings -- Monumental particularities.
The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation. -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Berck-Plage -- "Berck-Plage" -- This is the sea, then, this great abeyance -- Nobodaddy -- It is given up -- Sylvia Plath and "Sylvia Plath" -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- The death book stuff -- "Not poetry" -- Whitman, and Mother Death and Father Earth -- Dickinson, and death and the maiden -- Grave, tomb, and battle corpses -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- The army of the dead -- What was "pastoral"? -- The poetry is in the pity -- Down some profound dull tunnel -- I think we are in rats' alley/where the dead men lost their bones -- The man who does not know this has not understood anything -- Monsters of elegy -- Ryoan-ji -- Let the lamp affix its beam -- How to perform a funeral -- Documenting death -- Death studies -- Listening, looking -- Remembering -- Imagining -- Is there no consolation? -- Apocalypse now (and then) -- Y2K -- The unspeakable emergency -- Apo-kalypso -- Ground Zero -- Closure?
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