Mourning


Art Film Literature


Art


Bak, Samuel     The Family
    The Ghetto
Böcklin, Arnold     Island of the Dead
Blake, William     The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
Courbet, Gustave     A Burial at Ornans
David, Jacques-Louis     Death of Marat
    The Death of Socrates
Des Granges, David     The Saltonstall Family
Dubuffet, Jean     A Widow
Euphronios,     Death of Sarpedon
Ghiralandaio, Domenico     An Old Man and His Grandson
Gilbert and George,     A.D. (1987)
Goldstein, Barry M.     Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11--Portraits and Interviews
Gorky, Arshile     The Artist and His Mother
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Hodler, Ferdinand     The Dying Valentine Godé-Darel
Kahlo, Frida     El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
Kollwitz, Käthe     Farewell (Abschied)
    Woman with Dead Child
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
    The Dance of Life
    The Dead Mother
    Death in the Sickroom (Ein Tod)
    The Sick Child
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    The Tragedy
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Sendak, Maurice     Dear Mili: An Old Tale (Wilhelm Karl Grimm)
Simberg, Hugo     The Garden of Death
Smith, Kiki     Josephine


Film


    21 Grams
    About Schmidt
    Alice Neel
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The Body Beautiful
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Common Threads
    Daughters of the Dust
    Death on Request
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    The English Patient
    Garden State
    God Said, Ha!
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)
    Madame Curie
    Memento
    Monsoon Wedding
    Mother and Son
    Murderball
    My Life Without Me
    Opera Therapy
    Out of the Ashes
    Regeneration
    Respiro
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Shadowlands
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Smoke Signals
    The Son's Room
    The Station Agent
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    The Syringa Tree
    Terms of Endearment
    Three Colors: Blue
    Tsotsi
    The Undertaking
    The Vanishing Line
    Waltz with Bashir
    World's Greatest Dad
    Yesterday
    You Can Count on Me
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Adair, Virginia Hamilton     Exit Amor
    One Ordinary Evening
Akhmatova, Anna     Requiem
Alegria, Claribel     Sorrow/Saudade
Andrews, Tom     Codeine Diary: A Memoir
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Atwood, Margaret     Hairball
Austen, Jane     Sense and Sensibility
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Bahr, Mary     If Nathan Were Here
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Another World
    Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barth, John     On with the Story
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bayley, John Oliver     Elegy for Iris
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berg, Elizabeth     Durable Goods
    Talk Before Sleep
Berger, John     Her Secrets
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
    One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection
Betjeman, John     Death in Leamington
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Biguenet, John     Fatherhood
Bishop, Elizabeth     First Death in Nova Scotia
Bissell, Tom     Death Defier
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Blizzard
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Carroll, Robert     Amazing Change
    What Waiting Is
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
    Notes on Emphysema
Carver, Raymond     A Small, Good Thing
    Where I'm Calling From
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
Chaon, Dan     Fitting Ends
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Bear
    Enemies
    Misery
    On Easter Eve
    Rothschild's Fiddle
    Three Years
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clary, Patrick     Dying for Beginners
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     The Blow
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cooper, Bernard     The House of the Future
Couloumbis, Audrey     Getting Near to Baby
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Derrida, Jacques     The Work of Mourning
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    The Old Curiosity Shop
Dickinson, Emily     After great pain, a formal feeling comes
    I felt a funeral in my brain
    I heard a fly buzz when I died
    My life closed twice
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dixon, Paige     May I Cross Your Golden River?
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunmore, Helen     Annina
Dunn, Stephen     Turning Fifty
Durant, Penny Raife     When Heroes Die
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    The Lifted Veil
Esterhazy, Peter     Helping Verbs of the Heart
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
Faust, Drew Gilpin     This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Findley, Timothy     Dreams
    Pilgrim
Fischer, Maribeth     Stillborn
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Fuentes, Carlos     Aura
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Love in the Time of Cholera
    Of Love and Other Demons
    The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
    Wrongful Death
Ginsberg, Allen     Kaddish
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Goedicke, Patricia     As Earth Begins to End
Goldberg, Myla     Wickett's Remedy
Goldsmith, Ellen     No Pine Tree in this Forest is Perfect
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Grant, Cynthia     Shadow Man
    The White Horse
Grimm, Wilhelm Karl     Dear Mili: An Old Tale
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Guillen, Nicolas     Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Gunn, Thom     The Man with Night Sweats
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Hall, Donald     The Painted Bed
    Without
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
Handler, Jessica     Invisible Sisters: A Memoir
Harjo, Joy     Mourning Song
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
    Reuben, Reuben
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Heaney, Seamus     Mid-Term Break
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Hempel, Amy     In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Hermes, Patricia     You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
Hill, Kathleen     Still Waters in Niger
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Spring and Fall
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Hughes, Holly, J., ed.     Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease
Hugo, Richard     Graves at Elkhorn
    St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurwin, Davida Wills     A Time for Dancing
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ihimaera, Witi     Tangi
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Jones, Alice     Gorgeous Mourning
    The Knot
Jones, Richard     For My Sister
    Leaving Town after the Funeral
Jonson, Ben     On My First Sonne
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kenyon, Jane     The Blue Bowl
    Eating the Cookies
    The Sandy Hole
    What Came to Me
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Neverland
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klein, M., ed.     Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kunitz, Stanley     Father and Son
    The Portrait
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
    Unaccustomed Earth
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Larkin, Joan     Cold River
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     Odour of Chrysanthemums
Le Carré, John     The Constant Gardener
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
Levertov, Denise     Talking to Grief
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lowry, Lois     A Summer to Die
Lynch, Thomas     Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
    Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    Still Life in Milford
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Mahy, Margaret     Memory
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Mansfield, Katherine     The Man Without a Temperament
Marshall, Paule     Praisesong for the Widow
Matute, Ana Maria     Soldiers Cry by Night
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCann, Richard     Ghost Letters
    Mother of Sorrows
    The Resurrectionist
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDaniel, Lurlene     Time to Let Go
McEwan, Ian     Amsterdam
    Enduring Love
McFarland, Dennis     Singing Boy
McHugh, Heather     Unspeakable
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Grave of Keats
    Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
    Soon: Tales from Hospice
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
    Your Sightless Days
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    The Time of Death
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Murray, Les     The Last Hellos
Nemirovsky, Irene     Suite Francaise
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
O'Connor, Flannery     The Lame Shall Enter First
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
O'Hara, Frank     An Abortion
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
Olds, Sharon     The Dead Body
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Oliver, Mary     The Black Snake
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Olsen, Tillie     Tell Me a Riddle
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
Ozick, Cynthia     The Shawl
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Paterson, Katherine     Bridge to Terabethia
    Park's Quest
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picoult, Jodi     House Rules
Piercy, Marge     My Mother's Body
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich     The Third Son
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Porter, Katherine Anne     Holiday
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
Proulx, E. Annie     The Shipping News
Rasebotsa, N., Samuelson, M. & Thomas, K., eds.     Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa
Ray, David     In the Third Month
    One Thousand Years: Poems about the Holocaust
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Raz, Hilda     What Becomes You
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Rich, Adrienne     A Woman Dead In Her Forties
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Robinson, Elizabeth Ann     The Soul of the Nurse
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rodowsky, Colby     Remembering Mog
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rowe, Vernon     Sea Creatures and Other Poems
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Sachs, Albie     The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Santucci, Barbara     Anna's Corn
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarton, May     Recovering
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Schneiderman, L. J.     The Appointment
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     An Absence of Windows
    Atrium: October 2001
    Imelda
    Lessons from the Art
    Sarcophagus
    Tom and Lily
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
    Whither Thou Goest
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Sexton, Anne     The Abortion
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     Song and Dance
    Vigil
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Snodgrass, W. D.     Viewing the Body
Sontag, Susan     Regarding the Pain of Others
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spark, Debra     Last Things
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stewart, Linda McK.     25 Months: A Memoir
Stone, John     Talking to the Family
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Studer, Constance     Prayer to a Purple God
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Thomas, Dylan     A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Tolstoy, Leo     The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Van Duyn, Mona     The Accusation
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
    The Tennis Partner
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Vowell, Sarah     Assassination Vacation
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Whelan, Gloria     Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
    A Time to Keep Silent
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Grief
    Misgivings
    Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     Tract
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zalben, Jane Breskin     Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children