Imagining Ageing: Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Imagining Ageing

Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures

Edited by: Carmen Concilio
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection

Volume 18 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444269

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Carmen Concilio (Prof.), born in 1966, teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She was a student of Claudio Gorlier, the first Italian Chair of Postcolonial Literature in English. She specialized in the field of Canadian, Indian, Australian and South African Literature and received the Faculty Enrichment Programme award from the Canadian Government in 2009.

Reviews

Besprochen in:
Journal of Irish Studies, 9 (2019)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Editor’s Introduction Carmen Concilio Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land Licia Canton Open Access Download PDF	13
Shakespeare’s Grandiose Old Men Paolo Bertinetti Open Access Download PDF	19
Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe Lucia Folena Open Access Download PDF	27
The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending Pier Paolo Piciucco Open Access Download PDF	41
“Making Sense or No Sense of Existence”: The ‘Plot’ of Thomas Kinsella’s Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio’s De senectute Donatella Badin Open Access Download PDF	61
A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney’s Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain Irene De Angelis Open Access Download PDF	85
“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 Carmen Concilio Open Access Download PDF	103
Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello Blossom Fondo Open Access Download PDF	127
Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway Carmen Concilio Open Access Download PDF	141
“Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature”: The Māori Case Paola Della Valle Open Access Download PDF	165
Ageing and Neurologic Disease Enrica Favaro Open Access Download PDF	183
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	203

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Keywords: Aging; Geriatrics; World Literature; Film; Medicine; Aging Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; British Studies; English Literature

eBook

Published: October 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839444269