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Age Rage and Going Gently : Stories of the Senescent Subject in Twentieth-Century French Writing by Oliver Davis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Age Rage and Going Gently : Stories of the Senescent Subject in Twentieth-Century French Writing about?
This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse , and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and cl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Oliver Davis
- Publisher
- Brill
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042020269
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Literary Fiction
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