Women ageing through literature and experience
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lleida :
Univeristat de Lleida
2005.
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| Colección: | Dedal-Lit ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429195206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women Ageing: literature and experience ; Página Legal ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Moments of Ageing: The Reifungsroman in Contemporary Fiction; Nobody Prepares You for This: A Layperson's Experience of Coping with Senile Dementia; What Thing is it that People most (Un)desire? A View on Chaucer's Portrayal of the Process of Aging1; The Aesthetics of Ageing in Margaret Atwood's Fiction; "Lucky the culture where the old can talk to the young and the young can talk to the old": Narrative, Biology and Ageing in the Later Works of Doris Lessing
- Female Ageing as a Thematic Link: Fictionalising Women's Phases of Life in A.S. Byatt's Sugar and Other StoriesCrossing the Line1; Gender, Economics and Morality: Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; From Childhood to Old Age with a Sigh in Julian Barnes' Staring at the Sun; Breaking the Last Taboo: The Aging Female Protagonist in Literature1; "Money, for the night is coming": Gendered Economies of Aging in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys1
- "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the 'smartest' one of all?" A Dynamic View of the Elderly Woman in the Reifungsroman: Case Study of Monika van Paemel's The Cursed Fathers (1985)'Words we can grow old and die in': Female Reconstructions of the Irish Literary Idiom in Eavan Boland's Later Poetry; Notes on contributors
