| Description |
244 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theories of contemporary culture ; v. [13] |
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Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 13
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| Contents |
Introduction: aging, difference, and subjectivity. Reading Freud: aging, castration, and inertia. The mirror stage of old age: Marcel Proust's The past recaptured. The look and the gaze: narcissism, aggression, and aging: Virginia Woolf's The years. Gender, generational identity, and aging: Eva Figes's Waking. Between mourning and melancholia: Roland Barthes's Camera lucida. The transitional object of the oldest age: Samuel Beckett's Malone dies. Youthfulness as a masquerade: denial, resistance, and desire. Phantasms of the aging body: the companion/empty/fragmenting body |
| Analysis |
Aging in literature |
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English literature History and criticism 20th century |
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French literature History and criticism 20th century |
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Freud, Sigmund |
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Psychoanalysis and literature |
| Notes |
Includes index. Bibliography: p. [197] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-239) and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Aging in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
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Aging -- psychology.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| LC no. |
90004535 |
| ISBN |
0253206200 |
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0253366402 |
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