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New Orleans
  • A Writer's City
  • T. R. Johnson
  • Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    02 March 2023
  • The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.

  • Loss and Renewal in Old Age: Some Literary Models

  • Gerald F. Manning
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement / Volume 12 / Issue 4 / Winter/hiver 1993
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 November 2010, pp. 469-484

  • Cet article examine un problème courant, soit la perte, totale ou partielle, des facultés chez les aînés, et donne quelques exemples fictifs de stratégies pour y faire face. La première partie du texte porte sur certains ouvrages traitant du désoeuvrement, notamment une nouvelle de Carol Bly intitulée «Gunnar's Sword,» et le roman de David Malouf An Imaginary Life. La seconde partie de cet essai compare deux romans récents décrivant le quotidien des aînés, soit Adele at the End of the Day, de Tom Marshall, et The Remains of the Day, de Kazuo Ishiguro. Tous les ouvrages examinés sont évalués selon leur contribution à la compréhension du vieillissement et leur succès sur le plan littéraire.