""Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child," by Kirby Farrell

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"Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child,

(2014)

Kirby Farrell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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Abstract

A Review of Lessing's novel _The Fifth Child_ from _The Ernest Becker Foundation Newsletter

Keywords

childhood,
child development,
death anxiety,
fertility

Disciplines

Child Psychology,
Developmental Psychology,
English Language and Literature,
Psychology and
Social and Behavioral Sciences

Publication Date

2014

Citation Information

Kirby Farrell. ""Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child," (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kirby_farrell1/22/