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Aging in motion pictures. --- Aging in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in old age. --- Old age in literature. --- Older people in literature --- Older people --- Motion pictures --- Psychology

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In the United States anti-aging is a multibillion-dollar industry, and efforts to combat signs of aging have never been stronger, or more lucrative. Although there are many sociological studies of aging and culture, there are few studies that examine the ways cultural texts construct multiple narratives of aging that intersect and sometimes conflict with existing social theories of aging. In this book, the author contributes to the ongoing discourse of aging studies by incorporating methodologies and theories derived from the humanities in her investigation into contemporary representations of aging. The movement of aging is the movement of our lives, and this dynamism aligns aging with narrative: both are a function of time, of change, of one event happening after another. Subjects understand their lives through narrative trajectories--through stories--not necessarily as they are living moment to moment, but in reflection, reflection that becomes, many argue, more and more prevalent as one ages. As a result, narrative fiction provides compelling representations of the strange--indeed uncanny--familiarity of the aging self. The author explores a thematic similitude in a range of contemporary fiction and film by authors and directors such as John Banville, John Cassavetes, and Alice Munro. As their texts suggest, proceeding into old age involves a growing awareness of the otherness within, an awareness that reveals identity as multiple, shifting, and contradictory--in short, uncanny. Drawing together theories of the uncanny with research on aging and temporality, the author argues that aging is a category of difference integral to a contemporary understanding of identity and alterity.

Aging in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Aging in motion pictures. --- Aging in motion pictures. --- Identity (Psychology) in old age. --- Identity (Psychology) in old age. --- Old age in literature. --- Old age in literature. --- cinéma --- littérature --- Narration --- Théorie --- Vieillissement --- 21e s. (début) --- Narration --- Théorie --- Vieillissement --- 21e s. (début)

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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again. .

Ethics in literature. --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literary Theory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Theory