A Life of Their Own: Women’s Mid-life Quest in Contemporary Irish Women’s Short Stories
This essay focuses on the motif of quest, as initiated by older or middle-aged women and depicted in stories by Clare Boylan, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Stella Mahon, Mary Dorcey and Marilyn McLaughlin in the 1980s and 90s. Throughout the western literary canon the quest motif recurs in myths, legends or ge...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Estudios Irlandeses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ann-Wan-lih-Chang_EI11.pdf |