In the Midst of Winter

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Selections from the Literature of Mourning

Mary Jane Moffat

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Vintage Books
04 August 1992

Literary studies: general

A breathtaking, indispensable collection featuring poetry, fiction, letters, and diaries of the world's greatest writers on the nature of grief.

Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind- All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy for the bereaved. In this sensitive collection, loss finds a voice-or several voices-in the poetry, fiction, letters, and diaries of the world's great writers. Here are James Agee, recording the shock of his father's death; William Shakespeare, making poetry of Cleopatra's grief; the Biblical wisdom of The Book of Lamentations; the psychological acuity of Marcel Proust. Here are mourners from classical Rome to eleventh-century China, from the Paiute Indians to present-day Ireland. Arranged in sections that correspond to the stages of mourning, In the Midst of Winter is a volume whose breadth and resonance make it invaluable and utterly unique.

By: Mary Jane Moffat
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Books ed
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 253g
ISBN: 9780679738275
ISBN 10: 0679738274
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 August 1992
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARY JANE MOFFAT earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Stanford University, where she also taught Creative Writing in Wallace Stegner's department as a Merrilees Fellow. She also taught at San Francisco State University and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. She was co-editor of the feminist book, Revelations; Diaries of Women and editor of In the Midst of Winter, Selections from the Literature of Mourning.

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It is hard to have patience with people who say, There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. <br><br>-- C.S. Lewis