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Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics: Introduction to Special Issue
The essays in this special issue of Occasion were selected from papers given at the international conference “Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics,” held in 2011 at the University of Toronto. This conference—which drew scholars from disciplines as disparate as literary studies, medicine, and sociology—aimed to stimulate scholarly discussions of the construction of identity beyond the familiar tri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of British Cinema and Television
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1743-4521,1755-1714
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2017.0358