| #2645977 in Books | Univ of Massachusetts Pr | 1999-06-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.69 x6.14l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| KMLB|By KML|This is a most interesting book, adding to the field of literature as well as suicidology. It describes how various authors have come terms with suicidal ideation by writing about their emotions. Some have been able to cope while some finally took their own life. Comments by students of literature are also valuable.|0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.|From Library Journal|Berman's boyhood dream of being a successful oncologist was thwarted by mediocre grades in college science courses, but he has been more fortunate in his search for an understanding of another pathology: suicide. In graduate classes that com
An exploration of the relationship between literature and life, this study examines the effect on readers of "suicidal literature"―novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. Beginning with a discussion of the growing incidence of suicide in American culture, Jeffrey Berman investigates the portrayal of suicide in the works of four authors who later took their own lives―Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton― an...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Surviving Literary Suicide | Jeffrey Berman. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
