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The Seventh Age of Man: Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes is a collection of academic essays on Old Age. The contributors come from a wide range of fields of expertise, which accounts for the originality of the book. Depending on their respective disciplines, the authors resort to various methodolog...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cassel-Piccot, Muriel (Editor ), Lheureux, Geneviéve (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Temas:
Old age.
Vieillesse.
old age.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Old age
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Old Age in Contemporary Western Societies : Chapter One. Varieties of Experience in the "Seventh Age" / Patricia Thane
  • Chapter Two. "Semi-collective Housing" and Self-managed Co-housing, between the Empowerment of the Aged and the Denial of the Fragility Associated with Age / Cécile Rosenfelder
  • Part II. Old Age in the Renaissance, in England and Spain : Chapter Three. Old Age in Thomas More's Works: From a Poetical to a Spiritual Interpretation / Isabelle Bore
  • Chapter Four. Old Age in the Works of Quevedo / Paloma Otaola Gonzalez
  • Chapter Five. Old Age in Spanish Doctrinal Texts, from the Late Middle-Ages to the Seventeenth Century / Christine Orobitg
  • Part III. The Representation of Old Age on Screen and in the Media : Chapter Six. The Mother-in-law and the Wise Old Man: Representing Old Age, Figuring Social Harmony in Contemporary Chinese TV Drama / Justine Rochot
  • Chapter Seven. Ageing Popular Music Artists: French Newspaper Coverage of the Âge Tendre et Têtes de Bois Nostalgia Tour / Christopher Tinker
  • Chapter Eight. Dracula: The Horror of Old Age, the Nightmare of Eternal Life / Gaëtane Plottier
  • Part IV: The Experience of Old Age in Auto(fiction) : Chapter Nine. Female Ageing and the Fantastic in A.S. Byatt's Short Stories / Emilie Walezak
  • Chapter Ten. The "Old Ox", the Old Queen", and the "Whale in a Pail of Water": Postcolonial Portraits of Old Age / Florence Labaune-Demeule
  • Chapter Eleven. Two Irish Mature Voices on a Quest for Equanimity / Vanina Jobert-Martini
  • Chapter Twelve. Winter Journal: The Chronicles of an Author and his Characters' Ageing Foretold / Marie Thévenon
  • Contributors.

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