Cultural histories of ageing : myths, plots and metaphors of the senescent self / edited by Margery Vibe Skagen.
"Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally known h...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in cultural history ;
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Table of Contents:
- How can literary studies contribute to a cultural history of ageing / Margery Vibe Skagen
- Narrative configurations of ageing and time / Jan Baars
- Using literary sources in a world history of ageing / David G. Troyansky
- Rêverie and late writing : from the exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire / Margery Vibe Skagen
- "By nature led" : old age in William Wordsworth's poem "Old man travelling" / Peter Svare Valeur
- Ageing and creativity in Goethe's last works / Charlotte Lee
- Senescence at the Russian fin-de-siècle : on the ageless and the ageing self of Lev Tolstoy / Lillian Jorunn Helle
- Taking care of the self : ageing in Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray / Michael Mack
- Thomas Hardy and the question of senescence / Emanuela Ettorre and Adrian Tait
- "I do not write a life" : Hamsun, psychiatry and life narrative / Svein Atle Skålevåg
- Solitude and senescence : May Sarton's sense of an ending / George Rousseau
- French female literary milestones in the history of ageing / Martine Boyer-Weinmann
- "Je suis vieux et très contemporain" : old age and modernity in the works of Michel Houellebecq / Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
- Elderly people's homes in contemporary literature : a new old world by Mariusz Sieniewicz / Hanna Serkowska
- An ageing woman's dilemma : the varieties of silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's novel Days in the history of silence / Nora Simonhjel.