Imagining ageing representations of age and ageing in the 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 examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Concilio, Carmen (Editor), Concilio, Carmen, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
Bielefeld : [2018]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Aging studies ; Volume 18.
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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 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)
Descripción Física:1 online resource (213 pages)
ISBN:9783839444269