Aging in Slavic Literatures: Essays in Literary Gerontology

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Aging in Slavic Literatures

Essays in Literary Gerontology

Edited by: Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl

Volume 11 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839432211

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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.

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Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. She studied Slavic and Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Graz, Moscow and Rouen and holds two master's and a doctoral degree from the University of Graz. She specializes in literary and cultural studies with a focus on 20th-century Russian literature, gender and age/aging studies. In her PhD thesis (2002) she analyzed representations of women's aging in Russian literature. Her current research project focuses on narratives of homecoming in Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature of exile. Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl was granted the Prof. Paul Petry Award in Aging Studies in 1998; she is an alumna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS). In 2011 she was granted the Excellence in Teaching Award of the University of Graz.

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»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)

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Beyond Ageism, Beyond Sexism. Gender Issues, Aging and Sexuality in Vedrana Rudan’s Novel The Skeletons of Madison County Marija Geiger Zeman and Zdenko Zeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Growing Old to Remember. The “Final Questions” of a Hundred-Year-Old Ukrainian Villager Liana Goletiani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Aging and Old Age in Popular Autobiographies from Bratislava and Vienna Ľubica Voľanská Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Old Age and Ageing in People and Books. David Albahari’s Tsing Andrea Zink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
“My Diary That Grows Old with Me”. Representations of Old Age and Ageing in Women’s Diaries of the Soviet Era Irina Savkina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Alternative Narratives of Aging in Russian 20th-Century Literature. Valentin Rasputin’s and Jurij Trifonov’s Old Characters Ilaria Remonato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Gendered Perspectives on Sexuality, Body and Aging in Slovene Autobiographical Literature. Mrak – Zupan – Kovačič Andreas Leben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Exile, Return and “the Relative Brevity of Our Life”: Aging in Slavic Homecoming Narratives. Nabokov – Kundera – Jergović Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Fearing the Joys of Old Age. Contradictory Discourses of Aging in Adelaida Gercyk’s On Old Age Dimitrios Meletis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
“I Know Nothing Because of My Weakness”. A Comparative Analysis of Polish Letters and Memoirs (1845-1862) Wiesława Duży Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Aging in Renaissance Dalmatia. The Case of Petar Hektorović Natalia Stagl-Škaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
The Elderly and Old Age in a Russian Chronicle Nicoletta Cabassi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Aging; Literature; Slavic Literatures; Slavic Studies; Aging Studies; General Literature Studies; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies

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Published: July 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839432211