Traces of Aging : : Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative /

Traces of Aging : : Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative / / ed. by Nieves Pascual Soler, Marta Cerezo Moreno.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
HerausgeberIn:
Cerezo Moreno, Marta,
Soler, Nieves Pascual,
MitwirkendeR:
Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco,
Concha, Ángeles de la,
Gibert, Teresa,
Godoy-Benesch, Rahel Rivera,
Gravagne, Pamela,
MacDonald, Anna,
Miquel-Baldellou, Marta,
Moreno, Marta Cerezo,
Soler, Nieves Pascual,
Strauss, Sara,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Aging Studies ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age
  • Keeping Appointments with the Past Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
  • Haunted by a Traumatic Past Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin
  • "The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now"
  • Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography Challenging Ricoeur's Concept of Narrative Identity
  • An Appetite for Life Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine
  • Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
  • Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
  • Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self Doris Lessing's Experiments in Life-Writing
  • Contributors

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