The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning-these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, editors Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman have gathered the best classic and contemporary writing on mortality-from Montaigne to Monty Python-to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind. These idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public…mehr
The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning-these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, editors Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman have gathered the best classic and contemporary writing on mortality-from Montaigne to Monty Python-to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind. These idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery. A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including: Vladimir Nabokov- John Ashbery- Samuel Beckett Adam Smith- Simone de Beauvoir- Grace Paley Giovanni Boccaccio- Bertolt Brecht- Roland Barthes James Baldwin- Primo Levi- Anne Sexton Luis Buñuel- Paul Monette- Jessica Mitford- Stanley Elkin
WRESTLING WITH THE FACT Sigmund Freud: On Transience Bertolt Brecht: On His Mortality Michel de Montaigne: To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die Thomas Nagel: Death C. P. Cavafy: The Horses of Achilles Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory
BEING BRAVE AND BEING SCARED Philip Larkin: Aubade Paul Zweig: Departures John Keats: Sonnet Marguerite Yourcenar: With Open Eyes Adam Smith: On the Death of David Hume William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death John Ashbery: Fear of Death Robert Louis Stevenson: Aes Triplex
TIME TO BE OLD A. R. Ammons: from Garbage Samuel Clemens: On Old Age Luis Buñuel: Swan Song Kingsley Amis: Lovely Philip Larkin: The Old Fools
PART 2: WHAT WORDS ARE THERE?
LEFT BEHIND Paul Auster: Portrait of an Invisible Man Donald Justice: Sonnet to My Father Colette: He Died in His Seventy-Fourth Year . . . Alvin Feinman: True Night Emily Dickinson: Poems and a Letter Sharon Olds: The Death of Marilyn Monroe 129
ONE FIGHT MORE Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici James Merrill: An Upward Look Simone de Beauvoir: A Very Easy Death Nicole Loraux: A Woman’s Suicide for a Man’s Death
SONS AND DAUGHTERS Grace Paley: Mother James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son Philip Roth: Patrimony Anne Sexton: The Child-Bearers Elizabeth Rosen: My Mother’s Death
PART 3: GIVE DEATH THE CROWN: WAR, PESTILENCE, GENOCIDE
IN ITS MIDST Jasper Griffin: On Epic Death Alan Moorehead: Gallipoli Giovanni Boccaccio: The Plague in Florence Samuel Pepys: The Plague in London Primo Levi: October 1944 Robert Jay Lifton: Immersion in Death
OUR PLAGUE: AIDS Emmanuel Dreuilhe: Mortal Embrace Thom Gunn: Terminal Paul Monette: 3275
PART 4: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
THE ‘‘FORMAL FEELING’’: RITES AND RITUAL Emily Vermeule: A Very Active Dead Geoffrey Gorer: Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain Sheila Awooner-Renner: I Desperately Needed to See My Son George Bernard Shaw: On the Cremation of His Mother Richard Selzer: Remains
DEATH CULTURES Philippe Ariès: The Modern Cemetery Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Death Rudolf Schäfer: Photographing the Dead Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida Siegfried Giedion: The Mechanization of Death Erwin Panofsky: The Dangerous Dead
LEGACIES E. A. J. Honigmann: The Second-Best Bed Carlos M. N. Eire: From Madrid to Purgatory
PART 5: DEATH ISSUES
FINAL CARE George Orwell: How the Poor Die Anne Munley: The Hospice Alternative Joseph A. Califano: Death Management
EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE Timothy Quill: The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment Ronald Dworkin: Life’s Dominion Michael Burleigh: ‘‘Euthanasia’’ in Germany
PART 6: A HEALTHY DISTANCE Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies Stanley Elkin: The Beginning of the (Living) End Monty Python: The Dead Parrot Milan Kundera: Graveside Laughter
PART 7: RECAPITULATION William Shakespeare: Hamlet: The Graveyard
WRESTLING WITH THE FACT Sigmund Freud: On Transience Bertolt Brecht: On His Mortality Michel de Montaigne: To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die Thomas Nagel: Death C. P. Cavafy: The Horses of Achilles Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory
BEING BRAVE AND BEING SCARED Philip Larkin: Aubade Paul Zweig: Departures John Keats: Sonnet Marguerite Yourcenar: With Open Eyes Adam Smith: On the Death of David Hume William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death John Ashbery: Fear of Death Robert Louis Stevenson: Aes Triplex
TIME TO BE OLD A. R. Ammons: from Garbage Samuel Clemens: On Old Age Luis Buñuel: Swan Song Kingsley Amis: Lovely Philip Larkin: The Old Fools
PART 2: WHAT WORDS ARE THERE?
LEFT BEHIND Paul Auster: Portrait of an Invisible Man Donald Justice: Sonnet to My Father Colette: He Died in His Seventy-Fourth Year . . . Alvin Feinman: True Night Emily Dickinson: Poems and a Letter Sharon Olds: The Death of Marilyn Monroe 129
ONE FIGHT MORE Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici James Merrill: An Upward Look Simone de Beauvoir: A Very Easy Death Nicole Loraux: A Woman’s Suicide for a Man’s Death
SONS AND DAUGHTERS Grace Paley: Mother James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son Philip Roth: Patrimony Anne Sexton: The Child-Bearers Elizabeth Rosen: My Mother’s Death
PART 3: GIVE DEATH THE CROWN: WAR, PESTILENCE, GENOCIDE
IN ITS MIDST Jasper Griffin: On Epic Death Alan Moorehead: Gallipoli Giovanni Boccaccio: The Plague in Florence Samuel Pepys: The Plague in London Primo Levi: October 1944 Robert Jay Lifton: Immersion in Death
OUR PLAGUE: AIDS Emmanuel Dreuilhe: Mortal Embrace Thom Gunn: Terminal Paul Monette: 3275
PART 4: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
THE ‘‘FORMAL FEELING’’: RITES AND RITUAL Emily Vermeule: A Very Active Dead Geoffrey Gorer: Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain Sheila Awooner-Renner: I Desperately Needed to See My Son George Bernard Shaw: On the Cremation of His Mother Richard Selzer: Remains
DEATH CULTURES Philippe Ariès: The Modern Cemetery Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Death Rudolf Schäfer: Photographing the Dead Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida Siegfried Giedion: The Mechanization of Death Erwin Panofsky: The Dangerous Dead
LEGACIES E. A. J. Honigmann: The Second-Best Bed Carlos M. N. Eire: From Madrid to Purgatory
PART 5: DEATH ISSUES
FINAL CARE George Orwell: How the Poor Die Anne Munley: The Hospice Alternative Joseph A. Califano: Death Management
EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE Timothy Quill: The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment Ronald Dworkin: Life’s Dominion Michael Burleigh: ‘‘Euthanasia’’ in Germany
PART 6: A HEALTHY DISTANCE Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies Stanley Elkin: The Beginning of the (Living) End Monty Python: The Dead Parrot Milan Kundera: Graveside Laughter
PART 7: RECAPITULATION William Shakespeare: Hamlet: The Graveyard
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