Cultural Histories of Ageing (eBook, PDF)

Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self
Redaktion: Skagen, Margery Vibe

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century Western literature, this book teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity. The chapters demonstrate the great potential of interdisciplinary literary studies for historicising the ageing self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000383072
• Artikelnr.: 61339913

Autorenporträt

Margery Vibe Skagen is Associate Professor in French Literature at the University of Bergen.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing? 2.
Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time 3. Using Literary Sources in a
World History of Ageing 4. Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary
Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire 5. "By Nature Led": Old Age in William
Wordsworth's Poem "Old Man Travelling" 6. Ageing and Creativity in Goethe's
Last Works 7. Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and
the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy 8. Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 9. Thomas Hardy and the Question of
Senescence 10. "I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life
Narrative 11. Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton's Sense of an Ending 12.
French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing 13. "Je suis
vieux et très contemporain": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel
Houellebecq 14. Elderly People's Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New
Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz 15. An Ageing Woman's Dilemma: The
Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's Novel Days in the History of
Silence