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Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience
xxiii,141 p.
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ISBN: 9788484094999
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In this volume
- 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 Aging
- 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 Works of Doris Lessing
- Female Ageing as a Thematic Link : Fictionalising Women's Phases of Life in A.S. Byatt's Sugar & Other Stories
- Crossing the Line
- Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in The Canterbury Tales : Gender, Economics and Morality
- From Childhood to Old Age with a Sigh in Julian Barnes's Staring at the Sun.
- Breaking the Last Taboo : The Aging Female Protagonist in Literature
- Money, for the night is coming : Gendered Economies of Aging in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys
- 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
