The silent echo : the middle-aged female body in contemporary women's fiction / Helen Paloge.

• 1. Introduction -- 2. The Midlife Novel or the Female Bildungsroman of Second Adulthood -- 3. As Time Runs By -- 4. Waking Up to Change -- 5. The Image of Aging -- 6. Body -- 7. Mirror, Mirror ... Doubles, Mothers -- 8. Subject and Voice/The Gaze and Silence.

• "The Silent Echo examines the texts and subtexts of a number of English and American contemporary women's novels dealing with middle age. These novels of midlife chart the brief development of a female protagonist in early or late middle age as she achieves some measure of emotional and physical contentment or wisdom. Author Helen Paloge clearly shows that, in fact, these novels, which claim to confront in narrative terms the gender-bound implications of aging, generally reveal an unconscious denial of the truth of aging's significance for women, a consistent dishonesty on this score, and an ultimate refusal to confront the issues they claim to examine."--BOOK JACKET. 

Ämnesord

Människokroppen i litteraturen  (sao)

Kvinnor i litteraturen  (sao)

Amerikanska kvinnliga författare  -- 1945- (sao)

Kanadensiska kvinnliga författare  -- 1945- (sao)

Engelska kvinnliga författare  -- 1945- (sao)

American fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

Middle age in literature.  (LCSH)

Human body in literature.  (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Body, Human, in literature  (LCSH)

Women in literature  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PS374.W6 (LCC)

813.54099287 (DDC)