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Imagining Ageing

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What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of aging and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
  • 27 October 2018
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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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Price: $35.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Aging Studies
Publication Date: 27 October 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837644265
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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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.

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