Percepciones del envejecimientoGerda Marshalson en 'Henry and Cato' (1976), de Iris Murdoch

  1. Soláns García, Mariángel 1
  1. 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02msb5n36

Journal:
Epos: Revista de filología

ISSN: 0213-201X

Year of publication: 2020

Issue: 36

Pages: 123-138

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5944/EPOS.36.2020.28759 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to the novel Henry and Cato (1976) by the Anglo-Irish writer Iris Murdoch, analysing from an ageing studies perspective the way in which the cultural meanings of ageing are articulated in this text. The study deals with the codification of age in the body of one of the protagonists, Gerda Marshalson, the asymmetries in age power relations, and the ageist behaviours that her environment reflects. In this way, it focuses not only on the stereotypes related to the complex ageing process that the novel reproduces, but also on their subversion.

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