Helen Small

Gebundenes Buch

The Long Life

Beschreibung

The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literature since Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age, Helen Small ranges widely from Plato through to recent work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams and others, and from King Lear through Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Bellow, Roth, and Coetzee.

Autor

Helen Small was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Cambridge. She taught English Literature at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1996, and since 1996 has been Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2001 to 2004 she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and was a Visiting Scholar at New York University. The Long Life was primarily written during that period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199229932
• ISBN-10: 0199229937
• Artikelnr.: 24483964