Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction Literature that Returns to Life and the Mystique of Age 7
4. Keeping Appointments with the Past Time, Place, and Narrative Identity in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 21
5. Haunted by a Traumatic Past Age, Memory, and Narrative Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin 41
6. “The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!” Traces of Ageing, Memory, and Sexuality in Daphne du Maurier’s “Don’t Look Now” 65
7. Ageing, Agency, and Autobiography Challenging Ricoeur’s Concept of Narrative Identity 91
8. An Appetite for Life Narrative, Time, and Identity in Still Mine 111
9. Memory, Dementia, and Narrative Identity in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” 133
10. Horror Mortis, Structural Trauma, and Postmodern Parody in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King 149
11. Rewriting the Story, Restorying the Self Doris Lessing’s Experiments in Life-Writing 169
12. Contributors 189