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Grieving  
Whether writing about grieving helps and whether reading about how other people have dealt with bereavement provides solace. Traditional forms of writing about grief, like the pastoral elegy, as well as contemporary forms of writing about loss, like the memoir. Nancy K. Miller's Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death. How Deborah E. McDowell's academic study of grief led her to write a more personal story, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin.
Program 34
  Participants
Louis Martz
Deborah McDowell
Nancy K. Miller

 

 
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