Imagining Ageing :
Imagining Ageing : Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures /
ed. by Carmen Concilio.
- Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018] ©2018
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Aging Studies ; 18 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land -- Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men -- Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe -- The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending -- "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute -- A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain -- "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her -- Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello -- Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway -- "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Māori Case -- Ageing and Neurologic Disease -- Contributors
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and Postcolonial Literature. The contributors take a look at texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Withi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and suggest solutions - with the help of a Medical study - to the challenges that come with the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783839444269
2019377295
Aging in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.
Film.
Literature.
Medicine.
Old age in literature.
cultural studies.
Aging Studies.
Aging.
British Studies.
Cultural Studies.
English Literature.
Film.
General Literature Studies.
Geriatrics.
Literature.
Medicine.
World Literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology.
Aging Studies. Aging. British Studies. Cultural Studies. English Literature. Film. General Literature Studies. Geriatrics. Literature. Medicine. World Literature.
PR149.O44 / I43 2018
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land -- Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men -- Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe -- The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending -- "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute -- A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain -- "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her -- Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello -- Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway -- "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Māori Case -- Ageing and Neurologic Disease -- Contributors
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and Postcolonial Literature. The contributors take a look at texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Withi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and suggest solutions - with the help of a Medical study - to the challenges that come with the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783839444269
2019377295
Aging in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.
Film.
Literature.
Medicine.
Old age in literature.
cultural studies.
Aging Studies.
Aging.
British Studies.
Cultural Studies.
English Literature.
Film.
General Literature Studies.
Geriatrics.
Literature.
Medicine.
World Literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology.
Aging Studies. Aging. British Studies. Cultural Studies. English Literature. Film. General Literature Studies. Geriatrics. Literature. Medicine. World Literature.
PR149.O44 / I43 2018