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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gramshammer-Hohl, Dagmar[Herausgeber]

Titel

Aging in Slavic Literatures : Essays in Literary Gerontology

Ist Teil von

• Aging Studies : 11

Auflage

1st ed

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• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Beyond Ageism, Beyond Sexism. Gender Issues, Aging and Sexuality in Vedrana Rudan's Novel The Skeletons of Madison County 17 Growing Old to Remember. The "Final Questions" of a Hundred-Year-Old Ukrainian Villager 37 Aging and Old Age in Popular Autobiographies from Bratislava and Vienna 65 Old Age and Ageing in People and Books. David Albahari's Tsing 89 "My Diary That Grows Old with Me". Representations of Old Age and Ageing in Women's Diaries of the Soviet Era 105 Alternative Narratives of Aging in Russian 20th-Century Literature. Valentin Rasputin's and Jurij Trifonov's Old Characters 131 Gendered Perspectives on Sexuality, Body and Aging in Slovene Autobiographical Literature. Mrak - Zupan - Kovai 165 Exile, Return and "the Relative Brevity of Our Life": Aging in Slavic Homecoming Narratives. Nabokov - Kundera - Jergovi 185 Fearing the Joys of Old Age. Contradictory Discourses of Aging in Adelaida Gercyk's On Old Age 203 "I Know Nothing Because of My Weakness". A Comparative Analysis of Polish Letters and Memoirs (1845-1862) 223 Aging in Renaissance Dalmatia. The Case of Petar Hektorovi 239 The Elderly and Old Age in a Russian Chronicle 263 Contributors 279
• In Slavic studies, aging and old age have thus far been only marginal concerns. This volume brings together the scattered research that has been done up to now on aging as represented and narrated in Slavic literatures. The essays investigate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene and Ukrainian representations of age/aging in various literary genres and epochs and analyze age as a powerful marker of difference and as constitutive of social relations and personal identity.
• »Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohls edited collection of essays [...] is an extremely valuable study that engages in lucid critical inquiry of the theme of aging across a rich section of traditions, historical and cultural universes and valorizes complex, positive and non-stereotypical representations.« Domnica Radulescu, Slavic Review, Sommer 2019 »Der Herausgeberin ist es [...] zweifellos gelungen, für eine Vielzahl slawischer Literaturen in diversen diachronen Schnitten Beiträge zur Problematik des Alter(n)s zusammenzustellen, die durchgehend ein hohes wissenschaftliches Niveau aufweisen.« Stefan Simonek, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 79 (2017)
• Issued also in print.
• Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. She specializes in literary and cultural studies.
• In English.