Death-Watch: Terminal Illness and the Gaze in Sharon Olds's "The Father"

This essay attempts to understand the intimacy of the gaze not as a means of negotiating sexual difference but as a way of establishing connection between a healthy subject and a person with terminal illness. Using the work of theorists such as Mulvey, Foucault and Kristeva, the essay explores the d...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 1996-03, Vol.29 (1), p.103-121
1. Verfasser:	TANNER, LAURA E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Belgian literature Daughters Death Death & dying Diseases Eye movements Fathers Foucault, Michel French literature History & criticism Kristeva, Julia (1941- ) Literary criticism Mosaic Motion pictures Mulvey, Laura Objectification Olds, Sharon Poetry Tanneries Terminal illnesses Visual fixation
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Zusammenfassung:	This essay attempts to understand the intimacy of the gaze not as a means of negotiating sexual difference but as a way of establishing connection between a healthy subject and a person with terminal illness. Using the work of theorists such as Mulvey, Foucault and Kristeva, the essay explores the dynamics of the gaze in Olds's volume of poetry about the dying of her father.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683