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Cultural Histories of Ageing - Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self (Hardcover)
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Cultural Histories of Ageing - Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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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 duree 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.
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