Cerezo Moreno / Soler Traces of Aging

Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3439-0
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Aging Studies

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.

Marta Cerezo Moreno teaches English literature at the Spanish Open Distance University (UNED). Nieves Pascual Soler teaches American literature at the University of Jaen, Spain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cerezo Moreno, Marta

Soler, Nieves Pascual

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction. Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age;7
3;Keeping Appointments with the Past. Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz;21
4;Haunted by a Traumatic Past. Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin;41
5;“The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!” Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier’s “Don’t Look Now”;65
6;Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography. Challenging Ricoeur’s Concept of Narrative Identity;91
7;An Appetite for Life. Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine;111
8;Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”;133
9;Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King;149
10;Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self. Doris Lessing’s Experiments in Life-Writing;169
11;Contributors;189

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Cerezo Moreno teaches English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.
Nieves Pascual Soler teaches American literature at the University of Jaén, Spain.