{"product_id":"adventures-of-the-spirit-phyllis-sternberg-perrakis-9780814210642","title":"Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers","description":"In \u003ci\u003eAdventures of the Spirit, \u003c\/i\u003e Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis brings together eleven American and Canadian \"literary gerontologists\" to examine a new kind of adventure for the older woman in literature. This volume of critical essays analyzes recent works by contemporary women writers whose characters' midlife and later life changes are mapped in their narratives.Rather than focusing on the painful losses undergone by women of a certain age, recent narratives explore a new kind of adventure of aging, one that is spiritual in nature, enabling new ways of being and becoming, but open-ended and capable of great variation in practice. In particular, these journeys of the spirit focus on the retrospective movement undergone by a midlife or older woman as she is led by inner or outer forces to assess where she has come from and decipher a shape or pattern to her journey.These journeys do not leave the body behind as they map new spiritual territory. Rather they honor spirit's embrace of the natural world and relationships as well as its aspirations for evolving development and eternal existence. The essays in \u003ci\u003eAdventures of the Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e employ a wide variety of critical lenses to chart these adventures, including archetypal, Sufi, post-colonial, and feminist analysis; archival research; aboriginal life writing; and trauma theory. These studies bring a new understanding to women's adventure of age in both literary texts and in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814210643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814210642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.33w x 1.04d","brand":"Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46738987548927,"sku":"9780814210642","price":87.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf5b8b9e-51b1-4c76-a482-9be129d865b1.jpg?v=1743276870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adventures-of-the-spirit-phyllis-sternberg-perrakis-9780814210642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}