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1 online resource (193 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Aging studies ; volume 9
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Aging studies ; v. 9.
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Cover. Traces of Aging; 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. |
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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." |
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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." |
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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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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Introduction: Literature that returns to life and the mystique of age / Marta Cerezo Moreno and Nieves Pascual Soter -- Keeping appointments with the past : time, place, and narrative identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Anna MacDonald -- Haunted by a traumatic past : age, memory, and narrative identitiy in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin / Teresa Gilbert -- "The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" : traces of aging, memory, and sexuality in Daphne Du Maurier's "Don't look now" / Marta Míquel-Baldellou -- Ageing, agency, and autobiography : challenging Ricoeur's concept of narrative identitiy / Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch -- An appetite for life : narrative, time, and identity in Still mine / Pamela Gravagne -- Memory, dementia, and narrative identity in Alice Munro's "The bear came over the mountain" / Sara Strauss -- Horror mortis, structural trauma, and postmodern parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez -- Rewriting the story, restorying the self : Doris Lessing's experiments in life-writing / Ángeles de la Concha. |
| Summary |
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 depart from two notions: the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, based on the idea that fiction makes life, and his definition of »trace« as the mark of time. By investigating the traces imprinted in a series of literary works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to make it unusable and assemble one of transformation and growth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Old age in literature.
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Old age in literature. |
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Aging in literature.
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Aging in literature. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives. |
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Electronic books.
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Cerezo Moreno, Marta, editor.
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Pascual Soler, Nieves, editor.
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(GyWOH)har165005143 |
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Print version: Moreno, Marta Cerezo. Traces of Aging : Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, ©2016 9783837634396 |
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9783839434390 (electronic book) |
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3839434394 (electronic book) |
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3837634396 |
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9783837634396 |
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9783837634396 |
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