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Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
The Riddle of Turandot
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis thesis consists of two parts. Part One is a novel (The Riddle of Turandot), whose central character is a fifty-five year-old-woman and Part Two is an essay entitled The Representation of Older Women in Contemporary Fiction. Feminist theorists argue that it is difficult if not impossible to represent feminine subjectivity within the constraints of a phallocentric language. In my essay I will show that the fictional portrayal of older women is even more problematic in view of ageist attitudes inherent in Western society and directed primarily at women. In fact older women rarely appear in contemporary novels - except as caricatures.
Degree
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- Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
- Year dc:date
- 1998
Author and committee
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- Buttsworth, Lyn
Subjects
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- https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1680
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:ro.ecu.edu.au:theses-2681