The Art of Dying
Deborah S. Gentry · 2003
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"Although the representation of suicide is commonplace in literature, few studies have explicitly dealt with the meaning of suicide in the works of women writers. The Art of Dying applies theories concerning the division of women literary figures into angels or monsters to representative literary suicides of the nineteenth century, including the suicides of women characters in works by Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath." "The Art of Dying concludes by exploring women's need for self-actualization within the framework of love, marriage, and motherhood - institutions that have always demanded from women an unnatural and harmful degree of unselfishness. The inherent message in the works of artists such as Chopin and Plath is that women should not have to die in order to live."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 110
- ISBN
- 9780820424965
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