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Imagining Ageing Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures Carmen Concilio
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aging studies ; Volume 18.
- Aging Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglophone Literatures.
- Aging.
- Geriatrics.
- World Literature.
- Film.
- Medicine.
- Aging Studies.
- Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- General Literature Studies.
- British Studies.
- English Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Anglophone Literatures.
- Aging.
- Geriatrics.
- World Literature.
- Film.
- Medicine.
- Aging Studies.
- Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- General Literature Studies.
- British Studies.
- English Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Concilio (ed.), Imagining Ageing Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Carmen Concilio (PhD, Prof.) teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She was a student of Claudio Gorlier, the first Italian Chair of Postcolonial Literature in English. She specialized in the field of Canadian, Indian, Australian and South African Literature and received the Faculty Enrichment Programme award from the Canadian Government in 2009. Since 2016, she is President of the Italian Association of Postcolonial Studies.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Besprochen in:Journal of Irish Studies, 9 (2019)
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Editor's Introduction 7 Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land 13 Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men 19 Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe 27 The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending 41 "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute 61 A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain 85 "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 103 Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello 127 Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway 141 "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Mori Case 165 Ageing and Neurologic Disease 183 Contributors 203
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783839444269
- 3839444268
- OCLC:
- 1059262367
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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