Flaming Embers
Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire
©2010
Edited Collection
364 Pages
Summary
Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper insight into ourselves and others. Prescriptive cultural stereotypes, however, put obstacles on our path to progress as individuation. Yet growing older should not entail renunciation of the singularity of personal fulfilment.
This volume is a collection of literary testimonies to the power of art to challenge and resist the social constraints on desire in the context of aging. In the essays, men and women claim their right to age in desire and imaginative vigour.
This volume is a collection of literary testimonies to the power of art to challenge and resist the social constraints on desire in the context of aging. In the essays, men and women claim their right to age in desire and imaginative vigour.
Details
- Pages
- 364
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035100457
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034304382
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0351-0045-7
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2011 (February)
- Keywords
- Film and Television Studies Cultural Sociology Cultural Anthropology
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 361 pp.
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