...Adrian Curtin In teaching a course on death in modern theater to fifteen undergraduates, I had to engage with a real-life death “drama” (the death of a peer of my students) that impinged on my class, presenting me with an uncomfortable pedagogical conundrum. I had to re-think my objectives...

... in Interpretation . New York : McGraw-Hill . Birth, Death, and Transformation Ritual as Inquiry in the Classroom Helane Androne Some rituals captivate the imagination. Others provoke boredom. . . . Some rituals focus the attention, feed the imagination, evoke the remembrance of things past...

...) addresses death and dying with sensitivity, passion, and a mor- dant wit, while David Foster Wallace in “Shipping Out” (2001; also called “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”) explores the inevitability of decay and the tyranny of the body through one man’s pathological fear of a cruise ship...

...Linda Wagner-Martin © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Barzun, Jacques. 1945 . Teacher in America . New York: Little, Brown. Fiedler, Leslie A. 1960 . Love and Death in the American Novel . New York: Criterion. R e v i e w s Forum Editor s Note: This forum is the first...

...Karen Coats © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Agamben, Giorgio. 1991 . Language and Death: The Place of Negativity , trans. Karen E. Pinkus with Michael Hardt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Butler, Judith. 1997 . The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection...

...Gray Kochhar-Lindgren © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Agamben, Giorgio. 1991 . Language and Death: The Place of Negativity , trans. Karen E. Pinkus with Michael Hardt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Butler, Judith. 1997 . The Psychic Life of Power: Theories...

... . 1993 . Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics . London : Routledge . Barrett Browning Elizabeth . 1835 . “ Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and Suggested by Her ‘Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans’ .” New Monthly Magazine 45 : 82 . Barrett Browning Elizabeth...

... and pivots on a description of my experience teaching conceptual poet Ken- neth Goldsmith s Seven American Deaths and Disasters (2013) a book that would satisfy Scholes s demand for a fuller range of poems, to be sure. I argue that the methods of cultural studies which bring literature into the world...

... I Dread the Accommodations Talk .” Chronicle of Higher Education , 26 March . www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Dread-the-Accommodations/239571 . Kovalik Daniel . 2013 . “ Death of an Adjunct .” Pittsburgh Post Gazette , 18 September . www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2013/09...

... that the virtual format and the pandemic would become impediments to our reading of Mrs. Dalloway , the opposite happened. Our discussions about this novel, a lament on isolation and the failure of humans to communicate with each other—except, perhaps, through death—became a lifeline for students in the class. I...

...: Deciphering a Woman’s Life , 9 – 20 . New York : Harper . Mann Charles C. 2005 . “ The Coming Death Shortage .” Atlantic , May , www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/05/the-coming-death-shortage/304105/ . Marchetto Marisa Acocella . 2006 . Cancer Vixen: A True Story . New...

... follow Schildgen’s challenge by modeling this method of reading through an exploration of a single theme in light of the poem’s beginning and end: loss. It is too easy to reserve this experience for middle age, with all the attendant crises that come nel mezzo del cammin: deaths, disappointments...

... it was useless and all in vain to change her existence. As the dawn approaches she calls for the light to come, which could mean unique knowledge that one acquires in death. The prompt (see appendix) also fleshed out historical background on Socrates, Xantippe, and Levy herself and positioned “Xantippe...

.... Yet here I was: a fully funded student with an ongoing and assured paycheck, a rated aviator and combat pilot who was blessed with a guaranteed job upon graduation. Still, I was scared to death because I wasn’t sure I could transfer what I knew from my life of doing to my life of thinking. I...

... and cogency. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is about writing. At the novel’s center is a protagonist struggling to write down his autobiography, meandering from the story of his conception to the death of Pastor Yorick to the comic exploits of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim as they reenact the Siege...

... by reminding it of its basic ethical foundation: the call to devote oneself to the lives (and deaths) of others, to give oneself to what Craig Irvine (2005: 9), borrowing a phrase from George Eliot, terms “the other side of silence.” Using narrative practices to honor the stories of illness, to critique...

..., Benjamin. 1990 . The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Class . New York: Morrow. Lerner, Melvin, J. 1997 . “What Does the Belief in a Just World Protect Us From: The Dread of Death or Undeserved Suffering?” Psychological Inquiry 8 : 29 – 32. Marinucci, Mimi. 2003...

... editor,  Jerome Lindon, ended La Nuit with that image. The Yiddish memoir continues, “I saw the image of myself after my death. It was at that instant that the will to live was awakened. Without knowing why I raised a balled-up fist and smashed the mirror, breaking the image that lived within...

... . San Diego: Harcourt Brace. Mann, Thomas. 1989 [1930]. Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories , trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter. New York:Vintage. Milton, John. 1968 . Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained , ed. Christopher Ricks. New York: New American Library. Sragow, Michael. 2000 . “The Once...

... . Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . New York : Norton . Gertz Nurith Khleifi George . 2008 . Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Grizwold Eliza . 2012 . “ Why Afghan Women Risk Death...