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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through writers' consciousness and experience, literature, just like economics, psychology, history and...
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Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through writers' consciousness and experience, literature, just like economics, psychology, history and sociology, can provide valuable insights into the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in society. The present volume adds to this burgeoning field by providing a wide spectrum of literary analyses drawing on a range of approaches (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva and
TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE AGEING MOTHER; THE VEILED MIRROR; MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA; TO BREAK THE LOOKING-GLASS; WOMEN FACING OLD AGE; LA VIEILLESSE MENAÇANTE; LEARNING TO BE OLD; AS TIME GOES BY; THE QUEST FOR LEONORA CARRINGTON; FATHERHOOD AND AGE; LE PÈRE GORIOT; LIFE BEGINS AT SIXTY; AGEING 'HEROES'; MEMORIES AND OLD AGE; RESPECT OR RIDICULE?; EXPLORING SEXUALITY; FUTURE AGE AND CHILDREN; AGEING, MASCULINITY AND SEXUALITY IN SERGE DOUBROVSKY'S L'APRÈS-VIVRE AND UN HOMME DE PASSAGE; CREATIVITY AND POSITIVITY IN OLD AGE; 'SILENT TRANSFORMATIONS'; 'IN MY END / IS MY BEGINNING'
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