TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Jeffrey
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Dying in character: memoirs on the end of life 
SN  - 9781613762158
AV  - PS366.A88 B45 2013
U1  - 810.9/3548 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Self in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Critically ill
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: "It is when faced with death that we turn most bookish" -- "I never saw or heard the car coming": my close call with death -- "Death itself is a wonderful and positive experience": Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The wheel of life -- "With autobiography there's always another text, a countertext": Philip Roth and Patrimony -- "Death confers a certain beauty on one's hours": Harold Brodkey and This wild darkness -- "I have never been tempted to write about my own life": Susan Sontag, David Rieff, and Swimming in a sea of death -- "Sleeplessness for me is a cherished state": Edward W. Said and Out of place -- "There is more than one sort of luck": Tony Judt and The memory chalet -- "I never realized dying could be so much fun": Art Buchwald and Too soon to say goodbye -- "Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die": Morrie Schwartz's Letting go and Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie -- "I'm dying and I'm having fun": Randy Pausch and The last lecture -- "Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories": Jean-Dominique Bauby and The diving bell and The butterfly -- "I live in my suffering and that makes me happy": Roland Barthes and Mourning diary -- Conclusion: "alive when I died"
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762158/
ER  -