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 have based 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 »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.
Introduction Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 20 Marta Cerezo Moreno, Nieves Pascual Soler
Keeping Appointments with the Past Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald''s Austerlitz Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 40 Marta Miquel-Baldellou, Teresa Gibert, Rahel Rivera, Sara Strauss, Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, Pamela Gravagne
Haunted by a Traumatic Past Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood''s The Blind Assassin Kein Zugriff Seiten 41 - 64 Teresa Gibert
"The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier''s "Don''t Look Now" Kein Zugriff Seiten 65 - 90 Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography Challenging Ricoeur''s Concept of Narrative Identity Kein Zugriff Seiten 91 - 110 Rahel Rivera
An Appetite for Life Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine Kein Zugriff Seiten 111 - 132 Pamela Gravagne
Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro''s "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 148 Sara Strauss
Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow''s Henderson the Rain King Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 168 Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self Doris Lessing''s Experiments in Life-Writing Kein Zugriff Seiten 169 - 188 Marta Miquel-Baldellou, Teresa Gibert, Rahel Rivera, Sara Strauss, Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, Pamela Gravagne
Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 192 Marta Cerezo Moreno, Nieves Pascual Soler
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