Women ageing through literature and experience / compiled and edited by Brian J. Worsfold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Worsfold, Brian, ed.

e-libro, Corp.

Series:

Dedal-Lit ; 4.

Dedal-Lit ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mujeres en la literatura inglesa.

Vejez en la literatura.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Older women in literature.

Aging in literature.

Local Subjects:

Mujeres en la literatura inglesa.

Vejez en la literatura.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lleida : Univeristat de Lleida, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

» Se puede llegar a concebir el envejecimiento como un proceso diferencial según el género? Aspectos analizados en diferentes narraciones sobre el envejecimiento femenino demuestran qué asi es. Miradas al espejo, revisiones de vida y la expresión de la sexualidad son rasgos distintivos del proceso vital femenino. En este libro se revelan los sentimientos, las preocupaciones, las prioridades y las aspiraciones qué moldean las distintas fases de las vidas de las mujeres.

Contents:

Women Ageing: literature and experience ; Pa gina 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

Notes:

Incluye indice.

ISBN:

84-8409-499-5

OCLC:

923015061