Memory, Identity and Old Age: The Sense of an Ending as the Story of Ageing

Çiğdem ALP PAMUK

doi:https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848905

Makale detayları

Memory, Identity and Old Age: The Sense of an Ending as the Story of Ageing

Yazarlar:

Çiğdem ALP PAMUK

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi:

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.229-239

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000902314

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-6761

pISSN:

1309-6761

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848905

Özet:

 

The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes touches upon many issues such as gender, class, sexuality, death, and memory. It particularly underlines how our memories can be misleading and thus create false images of ourselves as well as of the people around us. One of the subjects dealt with in the novel is the process of ageing. Barnes does not represent the period of senescence as the phase of decay and stagnancy. Rather, it is a new stage in one’s life when a new sense of the self is formed and new facets of life – either positive or negative – are (re)discovered. Beginning particularly with the 1970s, old people with complex and interesting personalities have become the focus of contemporary fiction. The increase in the number of elderly people, the developments in gerontology and the theories of ageing have contributed to the emergence of new literary genres such as midlife bildung, reifungsroman and vollendungsroman. The aim of this paper is to focus on the complexities of later life represented in The Sense of an Ending and analyse the novel considering the features of vollendungsroman, a term suggested by Constance Rooke to define “the novel of completion” or “winding up”.

Makale detayları

Memory, Identity and Old Age: The Sense of an Ending as the Story of Ageing

Yazarlar: Çiğdem ALP PAMUK

Yayıncı: Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar: Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi: Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.229-239

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2020

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000902314

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 1309-6761

pISSN: 1309-6761

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848905

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Çiğdem ALP PAMUK

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Literary history & criticism | Edebiyat

Dergi:

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 Vol.14 Issue 2, pp.229-239

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000902314

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-6761

pISSN:

1309-6761

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.848905