Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

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Other Authors: Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ältere Frau > Motiv (Literatur) > Amerikanisch > Geschichte > 1970-2007 > Aufsatzsammlung.
Ältere Frau > Motiv (Literatur) > Englisch > Geschichte > 1970-2007 > Aufsatzsammlung.
Frauenliteratur > Amerikanisch > Motiv (Literatur) > Ältere Frau > Geschichte > 1970-2007 > Aufsatzsammlung.
Alter > Frau > Motiv > Roman > englischer.
Alter > Frau > Motiv > Roman > amerikanischer.
Roman > englischer > Motiv > Alter > Frau.
Roman > amerikanischer > Motiv > Alter > Frau.
Ouderdom.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Fictie.
Women and literature.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
Older women in literature.
Old age in literature.
Canadian fiction > Women authors.
Canadian fiction.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction.
Conscience de soi dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Vieillesse dans la litterature.
Femmes âgees dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature.
Roman canadien > 21e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Roman canadien > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Roman canadien > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman canadien > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Canadian fiction > 20th century > Themes, motives.
American fiction > 21st century > Themes, motives.
American fiction > 20th century > Themes, motives.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Frauenliteratur > Englisch > Motiv (Literatur) > Ältere Frau > Geschichte > 1970-2007 > Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
  • pt. 1. Doris Lessing : Spiraling the waves of detachment
  • 1. "Sleepers wake" : the surfacing of buried grief in Doris Lessing's Love, Again, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters / Virginia Tiger
  • 2. Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
  • 3. Through the "Wall" : crone journeys of enlightenment and creativity in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Keri Hulme, and other women writers / Sharon R. Wilson
  • pt. 2. Margaret Atwood : doubling back through the labyrinth
  • 4. Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin as spiritual adventure / Earl G. Ingersoll
  • 5. "And they went to bury her" : Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride / Debrah Raschke and Sarah Appleton
  • 6. Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the Burned House / Kathryn VanSpanckeren.
  • pt. 3. Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers
  • 7. "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale / Roberta Rubenstein
  • 8. On the road again : Aritha Van Herk's No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr's The Widows / Sally Chivers
  • 9. So much depends upon a ya-ya scrapbook : trauma, figured and reconfigured / Sandra Singer
  • 10. Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn / Susan Berry Brill De Ramírez
  • 11. "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Jeanie E. Warnock
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.

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