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Putting it down to experience : ageing and the subject in Sartre, Munro and Coetzee

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Barry, Elizabeth C. (2018) Putting it down to experience : ageing and the subject in Sartre, Munro and Coetzee. European Journal of English Studies, 22 (1). pp. 13-27. doi:10.1080/13825577.2018.1427197 ISSN 1382-5577.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1427197

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Abstract

This article will consider the kind of experience represented by old age, and whether we learn through this experience, or whether it falls outside our capacity or inclination to theorise and understand. It will look at ageing, and in particular ageing for women, through the lens of Sartrean philosophy – in relation to Sartre’s scepticism about gaining knowledge or character through simply living longer, and in relation to his position (endorsed by Simone de Beauvoir) that the body is no more than a necessary obstacle that might hamper our efforts to grasp the world (especially if we are women). In the light of the reflections on ageing and gender in Sartre and Beauvoir’s thought, it will use Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s model of the ‘midlife progress narrative’ to consider experience, knowledge and character in female ageing in the fiction of Alice Munro (‘Lichen’ [1985] and ‘Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass’ [1988]) and J.M. Coetzee (Elizabeth Costello [1999]).

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Journal or Publication Title: European Journal of English Studies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 1382-5577
Official Date: 22 February 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
22 February 2018Published
10 January 2018Accepted
Volume: 22
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 13-27
DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2018.1427197
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders: Elizabeth Barry
Date of first compliant deposit: 5 March 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 August 2019

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