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Companionship in grieflove and loss ...

Bayley, John, (1925-)

Companionship in grieflove and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Companionship in griefJeffrey Berman.
Reminder of title:	love and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /
Author:	Berman, Jeffrey,
other author:	Trillin, Calvin.
Published:	Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 284 p.).
Subject:	Grief in literature.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781613760123 (electronic bk.)

Companionship in grieflove and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /
Berman, Jeffrey,1945-

Companionship in grieflove and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /[electronic resource] :Jeffrey Berman. - Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 284 p.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.

"The lost other is an ongoing part of our existence" -- C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman : "Never have I loved her more than since she was struck down" -- John Bayley and Irish Murdoch : "In widowhood you lose not only your loved one but much of yourself" -- Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: "Art is created against death" -- Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne: "Life changes in the instant" -- Calvin Trillin and Alice Stewart Trillin : "I wrote everything for Alice" -- "It is possible to be bereft and not bereft simultaneously."

"In Companionship in Grief, Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people---the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed memoirs of the past fifty years offer insights into this profound loss: C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed; John Bayley's three memoirsabout Iris Murdoch, including Elegy for Iris; Donald Hall's The Best Day the Worst Day; Joan Didion's best-selling. The Year of Magical Thinking; and Calvin Trillin's About Alice. These books explore the nature of spousal bereavement, the importance of caregiving, the role of writing in recovery, and the possibility of falling in love again after a devastating loss. Throughout his study, Berman traces the theme of love and loss in all five memoirists' fictional and nonfictional writings as well as in those of their spouses, who were also accomplished writers." "Combining literary studies, grief and bereavement theory, attachment theory, composition studies, and trauma theory, Companionship in Grief willappeal to anyone who has experienced love and loss. Berman's research casts light on five remarkable marriages, showing how autobiographical stories of love and loss can memorialize deceased spouses and offer wisdom and comfort to readers." ""Jeffrey Berman's examination of each partner's writings gives this book its unique perspective. I know of noother work like his in thanatology; Companionship in Grief will make asignificant contribution to persons interested in death, dying, and bereavement."---David Balk, editor-in-chief, Handbook of Thanatology: TheEssential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement" ""This is a book that will be interesting to theorists of grief and grieving and to critics of contemporary British and American Literature while at the same time appealing to general readers who have themselves experienced crucial losses---or fear them."---Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve"--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9781613760123 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

176087
Grief in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.L58 / B47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

Companionship in grieflove and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /
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