Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer : A Collection of Critical Essays

Núria Casado-Gual

ISBN 10: 3034321996 / ISBN 13: 9783034321990

Edité par Peter Lang, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person's identity and, specifically, that of the older woman. As a contrast to stereotypical views of ageing women that are still sustained in both gerontological and social domains, the essays in this collection focus on the works of eleven women writers whose careers were or have been prolonged into their old age, and whose later literary creativity reveals fascinating aspects about both the complex, contradictory, and enriching experience of growing older, and especially of doing so as an artist and as a woman.

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• Titre: Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer : A Collection of Critical Essays
• Éditeur: Peter Lang
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3034321996
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783034321990
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 225 L x 150 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 225 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 430 grammes

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Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person's identity and, specifically, that of the older woman. As a contrast to stereotypical views of ageing women that are still sustained in both gerontological and social domains, the essays in this collection focus on the works of eleven women writers whose careers were or have been prolonged into their old age, and whose later literary creativity reveals fascinating aspects about both the complex, contradictory, and enriching experience of growing older, and especially of doing so as an artist and as a woman.

À propos de l?auteur

Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué, and Brian Worsfold are members of the research group Grup Dedal-Lit of the University of Lleida. Specialists in theatre in English, American Studies, and African literatures, respectively, they have all integrated their fields of expertise into their study of ageing in contemporary literatures in English through their various projects and numerous publications.