What Thing is it that People most (Un)desire? : a View on Chaucer's Portrayal of the Process of Aging

P. 21-30

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • 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
• Information

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