Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire, 1st Edition

Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper insight into ourselves and others. Prescriptive cultural stereotypes, however, put obstacles on our path to progress as individuation. Yet growing older should not entail renunciation of the singularity of personal fulfilment.This volume is a collection of literary testimonies to the power of art to challenge and resist the social constraints on desire in the context of aging. In the essays, men and women claim their right to age in desire and imaginative vigour.Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire 1st Edition is written by Bureu Ramos, Nela (ed.) and published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Flaming Embers are 9783035100457, 3035100454 and the print ISBNs are 9783034304382, 3034304382.