Death and read lists

Two new books with Brontë-related content:

Death in the Classroom
Writing About Love and Loss
by Jeffrey Berman
State University of New York Press, 2009

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
In Death in the Classroom, Jeffrey Berman writes about Love and Loss, the course that he designed and taught two years after his wife’s death, in which he explored with his students the literature of bereavement. Berman, building on his previous courses that emphasized self-disclosing writing, shows how his students wrote about their own experiences with love and loss, how their writing affected classmates and teacher alike, and how writing about death can lead to educational and psychological breakthroughs. In an age in which eighty percent of Americans die not in their homes but in institutions, and in which, consequently, the living are separated from the dying, Death in the Classroom reveals how reading, writing, and speaking about death can play a vital role in a student’s education.
“Death in the Classroom deals with an extremely important topic—our attitudes toward death and grieving and the possibility of helping students, through reading, writing, and classroom discussion, to reflect on death and grieving in their own and others’ lives. I like the book’s clarity and the vigor of its argument for death education in the university classroom. This is a book for teachers, especially teachers of literature and life writing who are committed to teaching literature from an ethical and experiential perspective, and it will also appeal to those interested in death education and attitudes toward death and dying, particularly in North America.” — Hilary Clark, editor of Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark.

Contains the chapter

6. Cathy’s Letter to Her Deceased Mother in Wuthering Heights

A review can be read on metapsychology.

Read on-- women's fiction : reading lists for every taste
Rebecca Vnuk
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited/ABC-CLIO, ©2009.

ISBN13: 9781591586425
ISBN10: 1591586429
Libraries Unlimited
Publication Date: 06/30/2009
Series: Author Research Series
Paperback | 200 pages

Created to offer a different perspective on women's fiction, and reach a broader reading audience (including fans), this book offers new reading paths for women's fiction lovers. It categorizes and lists hundreds of popular women's fiction titles, but the scope is more current and more selective, the tone is lighter and more informal, annotations are shorter and livelier. Most importantly, the organization and approach are based on various appeal factors of the genre, rather than the formal genres and subgenres that other guides adhere to. Use these lists to advise readers, to create thematic reading lists for library web sites, flyers, and newsletters; and as checklists or reading plans by those who enjoy women's fiction. Buy two copies-one for the reference and readers' advisory desk, and one to circulate!

Includes references to Jane Eyre as this review in ricklibrarian certifies.

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