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Aging Studies - 18: Imagining Ageing

Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures

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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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Aging Studies - 18: Imagining Ageing, Carmen Concilio

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2018
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Tytuł
Aging Studies - 18: Imagining Ageing
Podtytuł
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
2018
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
212
ISBN10
383764426X
ISBN13
9783837644265
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Opis
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.