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Author: Elizabeth Barry
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1843845717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
Author: Heike Hartung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1317511506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing experience of ageing is shaped by that of gender. By reading the Bildungsroman as a 'coming of age' novel, the book asks how the telling of a life in time affects individual age narratives. Bringing together the different perspectives of age and disability studies, the book argues that illness is already an important issue in the Bildungsroman's narratives of ageing. This theoretical stance provides new interpretations of canonical novels, visiting authors such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Jonathan Franzen. Drawing on the link between age and illness in the Bildungsroman's age narratives, the genre of 'dementia narrative' is presented as one of the directions which the Bildungsroman takes after its classical period. Applying these theoretical perspectives to canonical novels of the nineteenth century and to the new genre of 'dementia narrative', the volume also provides new insights into literary and genre history. This book introduces a new theoretical approach to cultural age studies and offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between narratology, literary theory, gender and age studies.
Author: Prisca von Dorotka Bagnell
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1989-09-25
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe various norms and values of aging that have been created by humans in the course of history have been largely ignored by gerontologists, who are thought to be more interested in the objective laws that govern science than in the subjective experiences that contribute to the aging process. This thought-provoking study belongs to the genre known as humanistic gerontology and it explores the attitudes toward aging as expressed by society. Outlining the cultural construction of old age and the social and psychological ramifications that are often imposed on the aged by external influences, it focuses on the status and treatment of old age and presents a portrait of aging in a cultural and historical perspective illuminated by diverse national literatures. Unlike any other book on the subject, this volume is an attempt to add to the body of knowledge that helps illustrate, explain, and bridge the dichotomy that still exists between the scientist and the humanist in the field of aging. The various contributors maintain a sensitivity to the continuing paradoxes associated with the aging condition and, using a historical framework, they analyze and interpret national literary conventions. This timely and incisive work examines the aging population as revealed in prominent national or regional literatures including Japan, China, South America, France, Russia, Germany, Austria, Great Britian, the United States, the Middle East, and samples from ancient Greek and Roman literature. Based on previous scholarly research, the volume provides a significant resource that deals with the universalities of the aging condition as expressed in diverse cultures and it extracts common themes and recurring images from the literature of those cultures. Perceptions of Aging in Literature will be read with interest by those engaged in gerontological research in the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities and it will be a welcome addition to all university libraries.
Author: Cathy McGlynn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-23
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 331963609X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women’s subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research.
Author: Anne M. Wyatt-Brown
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780813914343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this innovative volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine how individual writing careers begin to change in middle age.
Author: Laurel Porter
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Misztal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781032174464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLater Life views older age as a valuable stage of life, argues for the centrality of self-making to its quality and explores, with the help of literary examples, factors both supporting and hindering the quality of later-life experiences.
Author: Barbara A. Misztal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0429631596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLater Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life. Aiming to enrich an understanding of ageing as the unfolding process in which people try to negotiate vulnerabilities of their bodies and manage mortality, it explores the conditions for pursuing the search for knowledge of oneself in later life. This new book, with the help of literary examples, presents factors both supporting and hindering the quality of the experience of later life. It demonstrates how wondering, courage and habit sustain the self-making in older age. After illustrating that the process of ageing also imposes ordeals, the book depicts remedies needed to overcome boredom, bitterness and sadness, three torments caused by the age-specific sense of time. It is essential reading not only for academics and professionals in age studies, sociology of ageing, gerontology and health care, but also for a general audience. The book’s focus on the experiences of later life will appeal to the reader interested in understanding the complexities of ageing and in enhancing the quality of later life, while its reliance on literary illustrations will be appreciated by lovers of literature.
Author: Brian J. Worsfold
Publisher: Universitat de Lleida
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 8484094995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK¿Se puede llegar a concebir el envejecimiento como un proceso diferencial según el género? Aspectos analizados en diferentes narraciones sobre el envejecimiento femenino demuestran que así es. Miradas al espejo, revisiones de vida y la expresión de la sexualidad son rasgos distintivos del proceso vital femenino. En este libro se revelan los sentimientos, las preocupaciones, las prioridades y las aspiraciones que moldean las distintas fases de las vidas de las mujeres.
Author: Margaret Cruikshank
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0761868712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktales from Asia and Iraq. Fierce with Reality highlights writings by women, from late 19th century American literature to the present. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural. Fierce with Reality, aimed at a general audience as well as students and professors, would be ideal for book groups.
