Aging Studies - 18: Imagining Ageing

Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures

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Carmen Concilio

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212 pages
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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.

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Title: Aging Studies - 18: Imagining Ageing
Subtitle: Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
Language: English
Authors: Carmen Concilio
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Released: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 212
ISBN10: 383764426X
ISBN13: 9783837644265
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Categories: Non-Fiction Social Sciences Literary Studies
Non-Fiction Social Sciences Sociology
Non-Fiction Social Sciences Anthropology
Tags: Historical Themes, World Literature, Art, Music Theme, USA, Medicine, American Literature, Filmthema, Culture and Society, Literary Criticism, English Literature, Media and Media Communication, Popular Culture, Gender, Performing Arts, Social History, Old Age, Aging, Gerontology
Description: 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.