This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their... Read More
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This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that fiction makes life, and on his definition of »trace« as the mark of time. By investigating the traces of aging imprinted in a series of literary and filmic works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to assemble one of transformation and growth.
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- Price: $38.00
- Pages: 192
- Carton Quantity: 36
- Publisher: transcript publishing
- Imprint: transcript publishing
- Series: Aging Studies
- Publication Date: 16th August 2016
- Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
- ISBN: 9783837634396
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
Author Bio
Table of Contents
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age 7
Keeping Appointments with the Past Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz 21
Haunted by a Traumatic Past Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin 41
"The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now" 65
Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography Challenging Ricoeur's Concept of Narrative Identity 91
An Appetite for Life Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine 111
Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" 133
Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King 149
Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self Doris Lessing's Experiments in Life-Writing 169
Contributors 189
This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that fiction makes life, and on his definition of »trace« as the mark of time. By investigating the traces of aging imprinted in a series of literary and filmic works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to assemble one of transformation and growth.
- Price: $38.00
- Pages: 192
- Carton Quantity: 36
- Publisher: transcript publishing
- Imprint: transcript publishing
- Series: Aging Studies
- Publication Date: 16th August 2016
- Trim Size: 5.83 x 8.86 in
- ISBN: 9783837634396
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age 7
Keeping Appointments with the Past Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz 21
Haunted by a Traumatic Past Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin 41
"The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now" 65
Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography Challenging Ricoeur's Concept of Narrative Identity 91
An Appetite for Life Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine 111
Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" 133
Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King 149
Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self Doris Lessing's Experiments in Life-Writing 169
Contributors 189