Explorations of spirituality in American women's literature: the aging woman in the image of God
"This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women's spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this l...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
New York London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2023
|
| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
|
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality in literature
B American literature Women authors History and criticism B Older women in literature B God in literature |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Cunningham, Scarlett: Explorations of spirituality in American women's literature. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. - 9781003377177 |
| Summary: | "This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women's spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature treats aging and spirituality as major, connected themes. It demonstrates that such literature interacts meaningfully with feminist theology, social science research on aging and body image, attachment theory, and narrative identity theory. The book provides an interdisciplinary context for the relationship between aging and spirituality in order to confirm that US women's writing provides unique illustrations of the interconnections between aging and spirituality signaled by other fields. This book demonstrates that relationships between the human and divine remain a consistent and valuable feature of contemporary women's literature and that the divine-human relationship is under constant literary revision"-- |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1032454687 |