Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel - Brossura

Gullette, Margaret Marganroth

 
9781504029612: Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel

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<div>&#8220;Discovering the midlife progress novel, Gullette finds in recent fiction a pervasive tension between decline and a new ideology of aging. Appropriately, she invites the reader to join the writers in their therapeutic discourse.&#8221; &#8212;Rosemary Franklin, <i>American Literature</i>.<br> &#160;<br> &#8220;[This] book certainly makes you think. What is it that can happen in middle age to make it, as it is for many people, the clearest and sweetest time of life?&#8221; &#8212;Frank Conroy, <i>The New York Times</i></div>

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Informazioni sull'autore

<div>A pioneer in age studies and one of the most influential cultural critics on middle ageism and ageism, Margaret Morganroth Gullette is also the author of the prize-winning <i>Agewise</i>, <i>Aged by Culture</i>, and <i>Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. </i>She is a resident scholar in women&#8217;s studies at Brandeis.<br> &#160;</div>

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9780595091225: Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0595091229 ISBN 13:  9780595091225
Casa editrice: Backinprint.Com, 2000
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