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  1. Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer
    A Collection of Critical Essays
    Contributor: Penas-Ibáñez, Beatriz (Publisher); Álvarez Faedo, María José (Publisher); Casado-Gual, Núria (Publisher); Domínguez-Rué, Emma (Publisher); Worsfold, Brian (Publisher)
    Published: 2018; © 2016
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Contributor: Penas-Ibáñez, Beatriz (Publisher); Álvarez Faedo, María José (Publisher); Casado-Gual, Núria (Publisher); Domínguez-Rué, Emma (Publisher); Worsfold, Brian (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034322768
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    9783034322768
    RVK Categories: EC 2230
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Alter <Motiv>; Schriftstellerin; Literatur; Ältere Frau; Altern; Alter; Frau <Motiv>; Gerontologie; Literaturwissenschaft; Autorin
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
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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