Browsing Articles publicats (Anglès i Lingüística) by Author "Oró Piqueras, Maricel"
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Approaches to old age: perspectives from the twenty-first century
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Falcus, Sarah (Taylor & Francis, 2018) -
Broadening the scope of ageing femininities on TV : the evolution of the older woman in two contemporary Catalan soap operas
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Casado Gual, Núria (Taylor & Francis Online, 2017)In her work on women and the soap opera, Christine Geraghty argues that precisely the extended form of this TV genre, both in time and consequent plots, has contributed to a wider representation of women in terms of their ... -
De Pedra de Tartera a País Íntim: Pirineu i guerra civil en les novel·les de Maria Barbal
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Liverpool University Press, 2017-02-02)Like Maria Barbal's first novel, Pedra de tartera (1985), País íntim, published 20 years later in 2005, is set in the author's particular universe of el Pallars in the Catalan Pyrenees. This article will analyse two central ... -
Demythologising Female Ageing through Narrative Transgression in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger and Angela Carter's Wise Children
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Taylor & Francis, 2017)British contemporary novelists Penelope Lively and Angela Carter are well known for their contribution to narrative experimentation through which they challenged established cultural discourses in relation to gender and ... -
Escriure és viure amb més intensitat: Conversa sobre la creativitat i el pas del temps amb Maria Barbal
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Universitat de Barcelona, 2019) -
Exploring Care through Alan Bennett's The lady in the van: extending meanings, encountering otherness
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Casado Gual, Núria (Oxford University Press; The Gerontological Society of America, 2020)Background and Objectives: This article explores care relationships as they are represented within “The Lady in the Van,” a sequence of interconnected texts by English writer Alan Bennett. Research and Methods: By mainly ... -
Exploring the Interstices of Aging and Narrative Agency in M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
Pujolràs i Noguer, Esther; Domínguez Rué, Emma; Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna, 2021)Indian Ocean literature has captured the porousness and fluidity that configure the Indian Ocean space through narrations in which history and memory, both individual and collective, blend to voice the uninhabited silence ... -
Female Ageing: Revising Reifungsroman in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark and Love, Again
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Universidad de Almería, 2015-03-10)The ageing process is usually perceived as a time of loss and decline, especially for women. The first signs of ageing are shown in the external body. In Western societies, wrinkles, white hair, impending falling jaws and ... -
Female Aging: Between Fiction and Real Life
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Taylor & Francis, 2009)Despite the exponential aging of worldwide population, and despite women still living longer than men, prejudicial negative stereotypes and cultural constructs attached to female aging come to the surface time and again ... -
Forever Young: Consumer Culture and the Ageing Body in Hanif Kureishi's 'The Body'
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Images of old age in YouTube: destabilizing stereotypes
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Marques, Sibila (Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‘old age’, ‘older age’ and ‘senior citizens’. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines ... -
Invisible Environments: Old Age and its spaces
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Universidad de Almería. Departamento de Filologia Inglesa, 2005-05)Despite the progressive ageing of a worldwide population, negative attitudes towards old age have proliferated thanks to cultural constructs and myths that, for decades, have presented old age as a synonym of decay, ... -
Is Manuela Carmena a politician? Spanish journalists and politicians in the spotlight
Martín-Rubió, X.; Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Taylor and Francis, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to better understand how the participants involved in a specific radio interview use categorization to (re)produce a dominant discourse in the Spanish political arena. In this discourse, ... -
La lectura y escritura creativa como herramientas de análisis y transformación de la vejez
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Domínguez Rué, Emma; Mina Riera, Núria; Casado Gual, Núria (Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2021-08-24)La literatura es especialmente importante para las personas mayores, ya que, a través de representaciones literarias, éstas pueden cuestionar estereotipos y tabúes asociados al envejecimiento, así como la continuidad de ... -
Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014)An accumulation of years brings with it an accumulation of experiences. The revision of such experiences usually becomes more recurrent after retirement, a transition time from one period of life to another and, as such, ... -
Old Women, Young Souls: History as a Living Matter
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Filologia, 2002)The passionate and deceptive life stories of the protagonists in Angela Carter’s Wise Children (1990) and Rose Tremain’s The Cupboard (1984), women in their seventies and eighties, are entangled with historical events that ... -
Rewriting Leda and the Swan: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop (1967), and Lorna Crozier’s “Forms of Innocence” (1985) and “The Swan Girl” (1995)
Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Mina Riera, Núria (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment; Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2018)Angela Carter (1940-1992) and Lorna Crozier (1948) are two examples of contemporary writers who dedicate part of their work to problematizing historically established constructs that undermine the agency of both nature and ... -
The Loneliness of the Aging in Two Contemporary Novels
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America, 2014-04-28)Purpose of the Study: In The Loneliness of the Dying (1985), sociologist Norbert Elias claims that 'aging' and 'old age' have become frightening, almost taboo terms in Western society because death is increasingly made ... -
The pain and irony of death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Live
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (University of Groningen Press, 2021)Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his ... -
The ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough?
Oró Piqueras, Maricel (MDPI, 2012)If the old body is usually read as a synonym of fragility and upcoming illness, even though not the case for most elderly citizens, the reality is that the longer we live, the increased probability of being affected by ...