Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
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 examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Editor's Introduction
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Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land
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Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men
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Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe
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The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
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"Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute
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A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain
Seiten 85 - 102 -
"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
Seiten 103 - 126 -
Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello
Seiten 127 - 140 -
Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway
Seiten 141 - 164 -
"Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Māori Case
Seiten 165 - 182 -
Ageing and Neurologic Disease
Seiten 183 - 202 -
Contributors
Seiten 203 - 212
17. Oktober 2018, 212 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4426-5
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