Reifungsromane vis-à-vis Social Novels about Older Women: A Comparative Study on Fiction about Female Ageing in Contemporary Australian and Chinese Literature
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Open access
Authors
Liu, Yuanhang
Date
2020Supervisor
Joanne Jones
Micheal Seats
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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Humanities
School
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
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Abstract
This study focuses on fiction about female ageing since the 1970s as an important literary genre. By conducting a cross-cultural comparison based on the close-reading of the primary texts of two recent literary genres – Reifungsromane in the Australian context and Social Novels about Older Women in the Chinese context – this study contributes to the deeper understanding of female ageing experiences represented in contemporary literature.
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