As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age
About this ebook
Within the broad themes which structure the volume, many others also emerge, overlapping and often recurring in several sections. These constant echoes between essays remind us that, whatever the geographical location or the period in history, similar issues remain pertinent across time and space, whether it be family relations, generational solidarity, sadness and loneliness, memory and dementia, class differences, gender differences or sexuality.
Together, these essays contribute to the existing body of critical work by providing a series of portraits of what age is, has been and might be in the future. Collectively they demonstrate once more the power of literature to reflect or even prefigure social trends, encouraging us to consider carefully what we think, how we live and how we might shape our future societies.
About the author
Caroline Verdier is a Teaching Fellow in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she completed a PhD on contemporary Belgian writer Elisa Brune in 2011. Her research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, in particular Belgian women writers such as Françoise Lalande, Nicole Malinconi, Lydia Flem and Elisa Brune. She co-edited Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens with Susan Bainbrigge and Joy Charnley (New York: Peter Lang, 2010).
