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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 | |