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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface: A Matter of Life and Death | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Arranging My Mourning: Five Meditations on the Psychology of Grief | |
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| Death Opens | |
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| All Souls' Day | |
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| A Door Opens | |
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| On the Threshold | |
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| Voices | |
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| Widow | |
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| Phone Call | |
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| Keening/Kissing | |
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| Plath's Etymology | |
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| Sati | |
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| The Widower's Exequy | |
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| The Widow's Lament | |
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| The Widow's Desire | |
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| Mr. Lowell and the Spider | |
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| Yahrzeit | |
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| Why Is This Day Different from Other Days? | |
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| Caring for the Dead | |
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| Gravestones | |
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| The Buried Life | |
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| The Buried Self | |
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| E-mail to the Dead | |
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| The Hypothetical Life | |
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| Purgatories | |
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| Textual Resurrections | |
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| Psychic Research | |
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| Letters to the Virtual World | |
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| Allas the Deeth | |
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| Writing Wrong | |
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| Keynote | |
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| Weep and Write | |
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| This Is the Curse. Write | |
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| You Must Be Wicked to Deserve Such Pain | |
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| A Hole in the Heart | |
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| Impossible to Tell | |
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| History Makes Death: How the Twentieth Century Reshaped Dying and Mourning | |
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| Expiration/Termination | |
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| "Modern Death" | |
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| "Expiration" vs. "Termination" | |
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| Ash Wednesday | |
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| Timor Mortis | |
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| Ghosts of Heaven | |
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| Nada | |
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| The Souls of Animals | |
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| Technologies of Death | |
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| Extermination | |
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| Conditio Inhumana | |
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| Annihilation in History | |
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| The Great War and the City of Death | |
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| Hell on Earth | |
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| The German Requiem | |
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| Technologies of Dying | |
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| In the Hospital Spaceship | |
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| Questions of Technology | |
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| The Inhospitable Hospital | |
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| The Doctor's Detachment | |
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| What Vivian Is Bearing | |
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| A Day in the Death of... | |
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| Recording Death | |
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| Death Watching | |
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| Home Movies | |
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| Flashbulb Memories | |
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| The Celluloid Afterlife | |
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| Death and the Camera | |
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| Seeing and Believing | |
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| Mortality on Display | |
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| Haunting Photographs | |
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| Millennial Mourning | |
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| A Prayer Flag | |
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| Mourning Becomes Electronic | |
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| The Embarrassment of the Comforter | |
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| The Shame of the Mourner | |
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| Mourning as Malarkey | |
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| Ritual Offerings | |
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| Monumental Particularities | |
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| The Handbook of Heartbreak: Contemporary Elegy and Lamentation | |
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| On the Beach with Sylvia Plath | |
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| Berck-Plage | |
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| "Berck-Plage" | |
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| This Is the Sea, Then, This Great Abeyance | |
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| Nobodaddy | |
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| It Is Given Up | |
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| Sylvia Plath and "Sylvia Plath" | |
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| Was the Nineteenth Century Different, and Luckier? | |
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| The Death Book Stuff | |
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| "Not Poetry" | |
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| Whitman-and Mother Death and Father Earth | |
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| Dickinson-and Death and the Maiden | |
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| Grave, Tomb, and Battle Corpses | |
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| "Rats' Alley" and the Death of Pastoral | |
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| The Army of the Dead | |
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| What Was "Pastoral"? | |
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| The Poetry Is in the Pity | |
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| Down Some Profound Dull Tunnel | |
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| I Think We Are in Rats' Alley / Where the Dead Men Lost Their Bones | |
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| The Man Who Does Not Know This Has Not Understood Anything | |
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| Monsters of Elegy | |
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| Ryoan-ji | |
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| Let the Lamp Affix Its Beam | |
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| How to Perform a Funeral | |
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| Documenting Death | |
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| Death Studies | |
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| Listening, Looking | |
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| Remembering | |
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| Imagining | |
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| Is There No Consolation? | |
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| Apocalypse Now (and Then) | |
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| Y2K | |
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| The Unspeakable Emergency | |
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| Apo-kalypso | |
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| Ground Zero | |
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| Closure? | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |