Selective Disclosure in a First Conversation About a Family Death in James Agee's Novel A Death in the Family

Death Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 172-194

  Rober, Peter ^a   Rosenblatt, Paul C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEATH; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CHILD; DEATH; DISCLOSURE; EMOTIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LITERATURE, MODERN; MALE; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84872579138     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.628555     Document Type: Article

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