Age rage and going gently : : stories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing / / Oliver Davis.
This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 283 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
no. 283. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Gerontology against ontology in Simone de Beauvoir's La Vieillesse
- 2. André Gide's split senescent subject
- 3. Violette Leduc and the problem with psychoanalysis
- 4. Towards a psychoanalytic approach to senescent subjectivity
- 5. Beauvoir as biographer and autobiographer of the ageing subject
- 6. Hervé Guibert's intergenerational photo-text
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Bibliography
- Index.