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Roald Dahl's eerie landlady: A macabre tale of aging.
J Aging Stud
September 2022
Grup Dedal-Lit, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, Lleida 25001, Spain. Electronic address:
This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story 'The Landlady' through the lens of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual elements contribute to the narrative of decline and the negative notion of later life. Special attention is given to female aging and dementia, which is presented as a horrifying 'silent killer' embodied in the figure of a witch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxicological analysis of George's marvellous medicine: literature review.
BMJ
December 2020
University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Nottingham, UK.
Objective: To analyse the therapeutic effects and toxicity of the eponymous concoction described in Roald Dahl's book .
Design: Literature review.
Setting: Two literature loving households in England.
READING WILLY WONKA IN THE ERA OF ANTI-THINKING.
Am J Psychoanal
June 2018
Kilmainham Congregational Church, Inchicore Rd., Dublin 8, Ireland.
Whether encountered as a movie or novel, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a childhood staple of postwar Anglophone culture. Originally published in 1964, Dahl's story of "Willie Wonka" is a morality tale for our times addressed by the present essay in relation to the precariousness, violence, intergenerational faith, and materialist fantasies reflective of contemporary life in the early twenty-first century. Compensating for the precarity of contemporary life's impoverishment as assumptions of societal stability are overthrown, this chronicle of the Bucket family details: envious desire validated by large group chosen trauma; authoritarian enslavement of inferior, colonized peoples with murderous, industrial-level human experimentation; toward gratification of the greedy fantasy of unlimited sweetness under the sway of lethal identification with the aggressor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the author of some of the most famous children's books, Roald Dahl's impact on the lives of young people is obvious. But less well known is his legacy in terms of helping the sick and injured.
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Neuropsychol Rehabil
January 2019
a The Oliver Zangwill Centre, Ely , UK.
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