Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century Western literature, this book teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity. The chapters demonstrate the great potential of interdisciplinary literary studies for historicising the ageing self.
Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century Western literature, this book teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity. The chapters demonstrate the great potential of interdisciplinary literary studies for historicising the ageing self.
Margery Vibe Skagen is Associate Professor in French Literature at the University of Bergen.
Inhaltsangabe
1. How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing? 2. Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time 3. Using Literary Sources in a World History of Ageing 4. Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire 5. "By Nature Led": Old Age in William Wordsworth's Poem "Old Man Travelling" 6. Ageing and Creativity in Goethe's Last Works 7. Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy 8. Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 9. Thomas Hardy and the Question of Senescence 10. "I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative 11. Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton's Sense of an Ending 12. French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing 13. "Je suis vieux et très contemporain": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel Houellebecq 14. Elderly People's Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz 15. An Ageing Woman's Dilemma: The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's Novel Days in the History of Silence
1. How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing? 2. Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time 3. Using Literary Sources in a World History of Ageing 4. Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire 5. "By Nature Led": Old Age in William Wordsworth's Poem "Old Man Travelling" 6. Ageing and Creativity in Goethe's Last Works 7. Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy 8. Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 9. Thomas Hardy and the Question of Senescence 10. "I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative 11. Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton's Sense of an Ending 12. French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing 13. "Je suis vieux et très contemporain": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel Houellebecq 14. Elderly People's Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz 15. An Ageing Woman's Dilemma: The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's Novel Days in the History of Silence
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