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Resultat
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
2021

Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self

Bidragsytere:
  • Margery Vibe Skagen

Utgiver/serie

Utgiver

Routledge
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Publiseringsår: 2021
Antall sider: 313
ISBN: 9780367769741

Klassifisering

Fagfelt (NPI)

Fagfelt: Litteraturvitenskap
- Fagområde: Humaniora

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Tittel

Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self

Sammendrag

Drawing on sixteenth- to twenty-first-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 humanistic gerontologist Jan Baars, the prominent historian of old age David Troyansky and the distinguished cultural historian and pioneer in the field of literature and science George Rousseau join a team of literary historians who trace out the interfaces between their chosen texts and the respective periods’ medical and gerontological knowledge. The chapters’ in-depth analyses of major and less-known works demonstrate the rich potential of fiction, poetry and autobiographical writing in the construction of a cultural history of senescence. These literary examples not only bear witness to longue durée representations of old age, and epochal transitions regarding cultural attitudes to the aged; they also foreground the subjectivities that produced some of these representations and that continue to communicate with readers of other times and places. By casting a net over a variety of authors, genres, periods and languages, the collection gives a broad sense of how literature is among the richest and most engaging sources for historicizing the ageing self.

Bidragsytere

Margery Vibe Skagen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Redaktør
    ved Institutt for fremmedspråk ved Universitetet i Bergen
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Kapitler/Artikler Kapitler/Artikler

“How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing?” .

Skagen, Margery Vibe. 2021, Routledge. UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

“Reverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire.”.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. 2021, Routledge. UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

"I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative.

Skålevåg, Svein Atle. 2021, Routledge. UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

"'By Nature Led'. Old Age in William Wordsworth's Poem "Old Man Travelling".

Valeur, Peter Svare. 2021, Routledge. UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

An Ageing Woman's Dilemma. The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's Novel Days in the Histories of Silence.

Simonhjell, Nora. 2021, Routledge. UIAVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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