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

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