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Death's Door

Paperback • 2007 • English

Death's Door

By Sandra M. Gilbert

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About the book

Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that...Show more

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ISBN

9780393329698

Publisher

WW Norton Co

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Death's Door

Format

Paperback

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