Love letters to the dead: Resurrecting an epistolary art

Omega (United States)

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-333

  Lander, Dorothy ^a   Graham Pole, John ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOVE; MALE; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE;

EID: 66349135381     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.58.4.d     Document Type: Article

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