To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging

by Barbara Frey Waxman

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In To Live in the Center of the Moment, Barbara Frey Waxman examines the emergence of the evocative literature of aging and demonstrates how these autobiographies challenge negative cultural associations of old age. Waxman has selected narratives that focus not on the broad sweep of a person's life but on the period when aging becomes central to the subject's definition of self. The author shows how assessing these literary autobiographies...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813917573

ISBN13:9780813917573

Release Date:December 1997

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:185 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History

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