The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, USA. He has written on a wide range of subjects, including literature and psychoanalysis, the pedagogy of self-disclosure, love and loss, and death education.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Idealized Caregiver in Tolstoy’s The Death Of Ivan Ilych
2. Caregivers as Prisoners For Life in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
3. Unmasking the Caregiver in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
4. The Caregiver as Matchmaker in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away From Her
5. Caregiving Strategies For Survival in John Bayley’s Elegy For Iris, Iris And Her Friends, and Widower’s House
6. A Few True Things About Caregiving in Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing
7. The Avenging Caregiver in Mary Gordon’s Circling My Mother
8. Murderous Caregiving in Michael Haneke’s Amour
9. The Divine Gift Of Caregiving in Walter Mosley’s The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
10. Caregiving as a Progress Narrative in Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s Writings
11. Caregivers Struggling to Make the Right Decisions
in Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal
Conclusion: Caregiving: A Beautiful Story?
Works Cited
Index