Flaming Embers : Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire.
Title:
Flaming Embers : Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire.
Author:
Bureu Ramos, Nela.
ISBN:
9783035100457
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Series:
Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture ; v.3
Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Contents:
Table of Contents -- NELA BUREU RAMOS Introduction: The Aching of Desire 7 -- EMMA DOMÍNGUEZ RUÉA Woman's Worth: Perceptions of Desirein Mature Women in Ellen Glasgow's Short Fiction 23 -- MARKUS M. MÜLLERBack to the Body: 'Fantastic' Old Womenand Pleasure Regained in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Suzette Mayr's The Widows 39 -- BILLY GRAY' Your stay must be a becoming': Ageing and Desire in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace 67 -- CARMEN ZAMORANO LLENA 'The figures of the far past come back at the end': Unmasking the Desired Self through Reminiscencein Late Adulthood in John Banville's The Sea 87 -- GENE WALZ Desire and Aging in Manitoba Movies 113 -- ISABEL SANTAULÀRIA I CAPDEVILA From Forajidos to Misfits: Desiring Old Times in Deadwood 137 -- RACHED KHALIFA' I am unbroken': Aging, Ireland, and Political Desire in W.B. Yeats 161 -- BRIAN WORSFOLD Spur or Pitfall? Aged Men's Desire in Philip Roth's Everyman (2006), André Brink's Before I Forget (2004),and Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller (2005) 187 -- MARICEL ORÓ PIQUERAS The Indian Rebirth of the English Retired in Deborah Moggach's These Foolish Things 205 -- DENNIS COOLEY" what it was I knew my father felt, what I felt": hidden grief /unspoken desire in Robert Kroetsch's Seed Catalogue 219 -- ELENA PÉREZ SERRANO The ICM (Irish Catholic Mammy) and the Desirefor Self-Reinvention in the Walsh Series 275 -- NÚRIA CASADO GUAL Who Is 'the Other within'? Exploring the Kaleidoscopeof Internal Alterity through Laurent Cantet's and Kevin Rodney Sullivan's Films on Mature Female Desire 305 -- MARTA MIQUEL BALDELLOU Wishing Independence, Pleading Desire: The Dualityof (Fe) Male Ageing in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day 333 -- Index 353 -- Notes on Contributors 357.
Abstract:
Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper insight into ourselves and others. Prescriptive cultural stereotypes, however, put obstacles on our path to progress as individuation. Yet growing older should not entail renunciation of the singularity of personal fulfilment. This volume is a collection of literary testimonies to the power of art to challenge and resist the social constraints on desire in the context of aging. In the essays, men and women claim their right to age in desire and imaginative vigour.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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