Surviving Literary Suicide

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Jeffrey Berman

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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-- and two who did not--Kate Chopin and William Styron. In each case Berman discusses the writer's shifting attitude toward suicide, the tendency of critics to romanticize fictional suicide, and the impact of writing about suicide on the artist's own life. At the same time, Berman draws on his experiences as a teacher of these writings, analyzing student reactions to "literary suicide" as recorded in class diaries--responses ranging from grief and confusion to anger and guilt. By looking at the connection between real and imagined suicide, Berman seeks to shed fresh light on a subject long enshrouded in silence, fear, and mystery.

Author Biography:

Jeffrey Berman is professor of English at the University of Albany. He is author of The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis and Narcissism and the Novel.

Release date NZ

June 30th, 1999

Author

Jeffrey Berman

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

288

Dimensions

156x230x23

ISBN-13

9781558492110

Product ID

5317286

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