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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: 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: Adam Hammond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1107041902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book guides readers through the most salient theoretical and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms.
Author: Thomas M. Falkner
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-07-26
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780791400319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the significance of old age in Greek and Latin poetry and dramatic literature, not just in relation to other textual and historical concerns, but as a cultural and intellectual reality of central importance to understanding the works themselves. The book discusses a wide range of authors, from Homer to Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Euripides; from Horace to Vergil, Ovid, and beyond. Classical scholarship on these texts is enriched by a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from such fields as anthropology, social history, literary theory, psychology, and gerontology. The contributions examine the many and complex representations of old age in classical literature: their relation to the social and psychological realities of old age, their connection with the authors own place in the human life course, their metaphorical and symbolic capacity as poetic vehicles for social and ethical values.
Author: Ben Hutchinson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2020-11-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1789143535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe meaning of life is a common concern, but what is the meaning of midlife? With the help of illustrious writers such as Dante, Montaigne, Beauvoir, Goethe, and Beckett, The Midlife Mind sets out to answer this question. Erudite but engaging, it takes a personal approach to that most impersonal of processes, aging. From the ancients to the moderns, from poets to playwrights, writers have long meditated on how we can remain creative as we move through our middle years. There are no better guides, then, to how we have regarded middle age in the past, how we understand it in the present, and how we might make it as rewarding as possible in the future.
Author: 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: Mark Turin
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1909254304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.
Author: Haun Saussy
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-05-19
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801883804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on the influence of multiculturalism as a concept transforming literary and cultural studies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of comparative criticism in the 1990s. It demonstrates that comparative critical strategies can provide insights into the world's changing, and increasingly colliding, cultures.
