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Author:   Margery Vibe Skagen (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   102
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780367769741

ISBN 10:   0367769743
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   13 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing? 2. Narrative Configurations of Ageing and Time 3. Using Literary Sources in a World History of Ageing 4. Rêverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire 5. ""By Nature Led"": Old Age in William Wordsworth’s Poem ""Old Man Travelling"" 6. Ageing and Creativity in Goethe’s Last Works 7. Senescence at the Russian Fin-de-Siècle: On the Ageless and the Ageing Self of Lev Tolstoy 8. Taking Care of the Self: Ageing in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray 9. Thomas Hardy and the Question of Senescence 10. ""I Do Not Write a Life"": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative 11. Solitude and Senescence: May Sarton’s Sense of an Ending 12. French Female Literary Milestones in the History of Ageing 13. ""Je suis vieux et très contemporain"": Old Age and Modernity in the Works of Michel Houellebecq 14. Elderly People’s Homes in Contemporary Literature: A New Old World by Mariusz Sieniewicz 15. An Ageing Woman’s Dilemma: The Varieties of Silence in Merethe Lindstrøm’s Novel Days in the History of Silence"

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Margery Vibe Skagen is Associate Professor in French Literature at the University of Bergen.

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