The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English

xv,203 p.

• Capitoli dello stesso volume (disponibili singolarmente)

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • An Interview with Terri-ann White
  • Ageing and the Muses : Another Approach to the Poetry of Judith Wright
  • Black Skins, Old Masks : Ageing through Racism in Edgar Nkosi White's Drama
  • The Gulf between Books and Experience Is a Lonely Ocean : an Interview with Zadie Smith
  • Light Shed on Darkness: Homo Senilis in Philip Larkin's The Old Fools
  • I May Not Be a Lady, but I'm All a Woman : Triumphant Middle Age in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground
  • Who Wants to Live Forever? : an Interview with James L. Halperin on Life, Death and His Novel The First Immortal
  • Lucky the Culture Where the Old Can Talk to the Young and the Young Can Talk to the Old : in Conversation with Doris Lessing
  • The Kaleidoscope : a Personal Perspective on Four Woman Poets' Approach to the Phases of Life
  • The Ups and Downs of Ageing in Rose Tremain's Sadler's Birthday and The Cupboard
  • As Time Goes By… between Cultures? : Vikram Chandra's Fictions and the Circle of Life
  • The Passing of Time and the Flowing of the Self : in Conversation with Vikram Chandra
  • Horror, Monstrosity and Old Age in Stephen King's Insomnia and Apt Pupil
  • Ageing Patriarchs in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Charles Mungoshi's Waiting for the Rain and Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame
  • From Loneliness to Solitude in a Post-feminist Age : Redefining Love in the Second Half of Life in Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger
  • Notes on Contributors
• Informazioni

  ISBN: 9788484094982

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  MATERIE

  • Letterature inglese e anglosassone
  • English Literature