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Loss and Renewal in Old Age: Some Literary Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Gerald F. Manning
Gerald F. Manning
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University of Guelph
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Résumé

Cet article examine un problème courant, soit la perte, totale ou partielle, des facultés chez les aînés, et donne quelques exemples fictifs de stratégies pour y faire face. La première partie du texte porte sur certains ouvrages traitant du désoeuvrement, notamment une nouvelle de Carol Bly intitulée «Gunnar's Sword,» et le roman de David Malouf An Imaginary Life. La seconde partie de cet essai compare deux romans récents décrivant le quotidien des aînés, soit Adele at the End of the Day, de Tom Marshall, et The Remains of the Day, de Kazuo Ishiguro. Tous les ouvrages examinés sont évalués selon leur contribution à la compréhension du vieillissement et leur succès sur le plan littéraire.

Keywords

LiteratureFictionHumanitiesDisengagementLife ReviewTranscendenceMemoryLoss.Littératurefictionhumanitésdésengagementrévision de vietranscendencemémoireperte.
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 12 , Issue 4: The Humanities in Gerontology Numéro spécial: Les sciences humaines en gérontologie , Winter/hiver 1993 , pp. 469 - 484
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1993

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