Traces of Aging: Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative (Aging Studies)

ISBN 10: 3837634396 / ISBN 13: 9783837634396

Editore: Transcript-Verlag, 2016

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• Titolo: Traces of Aging: Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative (Aging Studies)
• Editore: Transcript-Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3837634396
• ISBN 13: 9783837634396
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. The contributors to this volume base their analysis on the concept of "narrative identity" developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that fiction makes life, and on his definition of the "trace" as the mark of time. By investigating the traces of aging imprinted in a series of literary and filmic works, they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to assemble one of transformation and growth.

Informazioni sull?autore

Marta Cerezo Moreno teaches English literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain.

Nieves Pascual Soler teaches American literature at the University of Jaén, Spain.