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Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema : Negotiating with Timelessness / Ila Ahlawat.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (140 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048553167
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 23
LOC classification:
  • PR830.W6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remembering to Forget -- 1. The Sibyl and the Hanging Cage -- 2. Sibyl and the Crazed Painting -- 3. Molloy and his Mother in the Room -- 4. Dreaming in Loops in Westworld -- 5. Locating the Beginning and the End in the Triangle -- Conclusion: Losing it all in the Head -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered temporalities that are essentially nuanced and affective experiences. Throughout, this book seeks to locate and spell out the damaging as well as the healing effects of temporality upon women’s consciousness.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remembering to Forget -- 1. The Sibyl and the Hanging Cage -- 2. Sibyl and the Crazed Painting -- 3. Molloy and his Mother in the Room -- 4. Dreaming in Loops in Westworld -- 5. Locating the Beginning and the End in the Triangle -- Conclusion: Losing it all in the Head -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered temporalities that are essentially nuanced and affective experiences. Throughout, this book seeks to locate and spell out the damaging as well as the healing effects of temporality upon women’s consciousness.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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