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.

Editor's Introduction

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2018-01-01

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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.
2018
Imagining Ageing. Representations of Age snd Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
TRANSCRIPT VERLAG
Aging Studies
XVIII
7
12
9783837644265
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4426-5/imagining-ageing/
Letteratura inglese, letteratura postcoloniale, ageing studies, medical studies, alzheimer's disease
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