false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171231904m/91631.jpg 91631 2 <B>Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices.</B><BR><BR>Does death <I>change</I>&#151;and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that barely change from age to age?<BR><BR>Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." This inevitability has left varying marks on all human cultures. Exploring expressions of faith, burial customs, photographs, poems, and memoirs, acclaimed author Sandra M. Gilbert brings to the topic of death the critical skill that won her fame for <I>The Madwoman in the Attic</I> and other books, as she examines both the changelessness of grief and the changing customs that mark contemporary mourning. 25 illustrations. 1751525 2006 Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study total:10|5:2|4:4|3:2|2:1|1:1| 10 35 27 4 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:45:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:45:29 -0800 2009 A few reviewers refer to a letter of William Butler Yeats in which he stated that "sex and the dead" are the only topics of interest "to a serious and studious mood." Sandra M. Gilbert famously tackled the former in her landmark study of women writers, The Madwoman in the Attic (...

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