Death, narrative integrity, and the radical challenge of self-understanding: A reading of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

Ageing and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-398

  Freeman, Mark ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Death; Hermeneutics; History; Memory; Narrative; Self understanding; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344332147     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X97006508     Document Type: Article

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