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 take a look at texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Concilio, Carmen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Aging Studies ; 18
Temas:
cultural studies.
Film.
Literature.
Medicine.
Literature, Modern.
Littérature.
Médecine.
medicines (material)
medicine (discipline)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature
Medicine
Alter
Englisch
Literatur
Altern
Alter > Motiv
Altern > Motiv
Postkolonialismus
Aging Studies.
Aging.
British Studies.
Cultural Studies.
English Literature.
General Literature Studies.
Geriatrics.
World Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 take a look at texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Withi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and suggest solutions - with the help of a Medical study - to the challenges that come with the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:3839444268
9783839444269
Acceso:Open Access

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