crying and frying

[Flavio]

> Diana York Blaine <dyb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu> asks:
> 
> > I'm planning a seminar next term on death, mourning and suicide in
> > literature.  Someone mentioned Werther--any other suggestions?  I
> > thought maybe Hamlet and Gerald's Party, inter alia. I'm not limited by
> > genre, period or geography.  Diana

Diana:

-Hermann Broch's "The Death of Virgil"
-Camus' "The Stranger" (which is about losing the sense of death;
moreover, its first two sentences say a lot about this century's notion
of mourning)
-"Signal to Noise" by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean- it's a comic book,
but give it a try and you'll see my point. 

I've already mentioned Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" (from "Cathedral")
in this list, but I'd feel guilty not to bring it up again.

"The Romantic Agony" by Mario Praz is an interesting view on
Romantic/Decadent notions about death.

Good luck!

Flavio

ps: And for God's sake,"Consider it not so deeply-"(W.S.-"Macbeth")!