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Imagining Ageing: Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
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Abstract 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, Seam... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
geriatrics; aging; film; medicine; literature; cultural studies
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Anglophone Literatures; World Literature; Aging Studies; General Literature Studies; British Studies; English Literature
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
210 p.
Series
Aging Studies, 18
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269
ISBN
978-3-8394-4426-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0