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  1. The Lioness in Winter
    Writing an Old Woman's Life
    Author: Burack-Weiss, Ann
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  2. The lioness in winter
    writing an old woman's life
    Author: Burack-Weiss, Ann
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    When she started working with the aged more than 40 years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began packing away the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she became older herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had... more

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    When she started working with the aged more than 40 years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began packing away the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she became older herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional literature offered little help, so she turned to the late-life writing of beloved women authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, and Doris Lessing were among the many guides she turned to for inspiration. In 'The Lioness in Winter', Burack-Weiss blends an analysis of key writings from these and other famed women authors with her own wisdom to create a companion for older women and those who care for them.

     
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    Subjects: Englisch; Französisch; Altern <Motiv>; Ältere Frau <Motiv>; Frauenliteratur; Old age in literature; Older women in literature; Aging in literature; Literature; Life change events in literature; Life cycle, Human, in literature; Life change events in old age
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  3. Ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture
    Contributor: Schrage-Früh, Michaela (Herausgeber); Tracy, Tony (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the... more

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    This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men's embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Sen Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O'Brien, John Banville, Colm Tibn, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, thechapters in thisbook attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression

     
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  4. Alterstopoi
    das Wissen von der Lebensaltern in Literatur, Kunst und Theologie
    Contributor: Elm von der Osten, Dorothee
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Walter De Gruyter, Berlin ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

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    Contributor: Elm von der Osten, Dorothee
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110213560; 3110213567
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; FB 4066 ; LB 43860
    DDC Categories: 200; 300; 800
    Subjects: Lebensalter <Motiv>; Literatur; Age groups in literature; Literature; Age groups in art; Aging; Aging in art; Aging in literature; TRAVEL; LITERARY CRITICISM; Age groups in art; Age groups in literature; Aging in art; Aging in literature; Aging; Literature
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  5. Re-discovering age(ing)
    narratives of mentorship
    Contributor: Casado Gual, Núria (HerausgeberIn); Domínguez-Rué, Emma (HerausgeberIn); Oró-Piqueras, Maricel (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
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    Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction / Casado-Gual, Núria / Domínguez-Rué, Emma / Oró-Piqueras, Maricel -- Rediscovering ageing through narratives of Mentorship -- Getting Old, Dreaming Youth: Notes about Fanny Burney / Suárez-Lafuente, Maria... more

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    Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction / Casado-Gual, Núria / Domínguez-Rué, Emma / Oró-Piqueras, Maricel -- Rediscovering ageing through narratives of Mentorship -- Getting Old, Dreaming Youth: Notes about Fanny Burney / Suárez-Lafuente, Maria Socorro -- I may be retired—however, I am still a very busy man / Miquel-Baldellou, Marta -- Rumi, Sufi Spirituality and the Teacher- Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love / Gray, Billy -- Saviors and Survivors / Morganroth Gullette, Margaret -- Literary Mentors for Life / Casado-Gual, Núria -- The Many Functions of Furniture / Maierhofer, Roberta -- Experience as Mentor in Helping to Deal with Old Age / Ballyn, Susan -- “One must take it as it comes” / Swinnen, Aagje / Laceulle, Hanne -- Toledo / Skoblow, Jeffrey -- Lessons Learnt: CollAge for Maria and Brian -- Of Trees and Fire / Cuadrado-Fernández, Antoni -- Embodied Legacies of Mentoring and Role Models / Dolan, Josephine -- Mentorship as a Lifelong Experience / Errasti, Ander / Astier, Cristina -- Reflections on Academic Generations and the Possibilities of Mentorship / Falcus, Sarah -- All that Remains / Farré Vidal, Carme -- On Listening to the ‘Music for two Pianos’ / Kinsella, John -- Maria And Brian— Our Parental Figures in the World of Academia / Mina, Núria / Stončikaitė, Ieva -- Connecting People through Brian and Maria—No Limits / Urdaneta, Elena -- To Feel Part of a Dream / Casado Gual, Núria -- Let’s have tea in “La Torre”: Mentoring through Affection / Oró-Piqueras, Maricel -- Your Child of Sorts—A Tribute to Maria & Brian / Domínguez-Rué, Emma -- Notes -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's "Odyssey", gave name to the figure of the 'wise teacher', fictional representations of mentoring have permeated different classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume analyse this narrative of mentorship that offers a mirror and also a narrative practice through which ageist views of later life (and also of youth) may be undermined, while it at the same time enables a study of questions relevant to wisdom in old age

     
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    Contributor: Casado Gual, Núria (HerausgeberIn); Domínguez-Rué, Emma (HerausgeberIn); Oró-Piqueras, Maricel (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783839443965
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    Series: Aging studies ; Volume 16
    Subjects: Aging in literature; Aging; Intergenerational relations in literature; Mentoring in literature; Altern; Weisheit; Lebenserfahrung; Mentor; RELIGION / Christianity / History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
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  6. Wrinkled Deep in Time
    Aging in Shakespeare
    Author: Charney, Maurice
    Published: 2009; ©2009
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is... more

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    Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony and Cleopatra, and at the end of King Lear, there is a tragic sense that both the king and Gloucester have acquired a wisdom they otherwise lacked at the beginning of the play. Even Juliet matures considerably before she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, and Macbeth and his wife prematurely grow old from t

     
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    ISBN: 9780231520898
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    Subjects: Aging in literature; Old age in literature; Aging in literature.; Old age in literature.; Anglo-American Literature, general.; Literary Studies.; Literature in Diverse Languages.
    Scope: 1 online resource (191 p)
  7. Protest and the body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
    Author: McGlamery, Tom
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

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  8. The lioness in winter
    writing an old woman's life
    Author: Burack-Weiss, Ann
    Published: 2016; © 2016
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    ISBN: 9780231525336
    Subjects: Old age in literature; Older women in literature; Aging in literature; Literature; Life change events in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (208 pages)
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  9. Wrinkled deep in time
    aging in Shakespeare
    Author: Charney, Maurice
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Subjects: Aging in literature; Old age in literature; Altern <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: ix, 177 p
  10. Age rage and going gently
    stories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing
    Author: Davis, Oliver
    Published: 2006
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    ISBN: 1429468025; 9042020261; 9781429468022; 9789042020269
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    Series: Faux titre ; no 283
    Subjects: Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Ouderdom; Bellettrie; Frans; Aging in literature; French literature; Französisch; Literatur; French literature; Aging in literature; Französisch; Alter <Motiv>; Literatur
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    "This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse, and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, Promenade au Pays de la Vieillesse. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Herve Guibert's recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise, is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury ('age rage') and serene acceptance ('going gently'), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject."--Jacket
  11. Robert Penn Warren after Audubon
    the work of aging and the quest for transcendence in his later poetry
    Author: Millichap, Joseph R.
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

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    ISBN: 0807136719; 9780807136713
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Aging in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature; Aging in literature; Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature; Transzendenz; Altern
    Other subjects: Warren, Robert Penn / 1905-1989 / Poetic works; Warren, Robert Penn / 1905-1989; Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989); Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989)
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    Preface; Prologue: Autobiography, Aging, and Warren's Poetry through Audubon; 1. Predication and Interjection: Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968-1974; 2: Lyric and Logic: Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand? Poems 1975; 3. Nostalgia and Speculation: Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978; 4. Autobiography and Age-Work: Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980; 5: Mortality and Eternity: Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980; 6. Sublimity and Transcendence: Altitudes and Extensions: 1980-1984; Epilogue: Autobiography, Aging, and Warren's Poetry in a NewCentury; Notes to Text; Works Cited; Index

    Despite nearly universal critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. In this groundbreaking work, Warren scholar Joseph R. Millichap takes advantage of current research on developmental psychology, gerontology, and end-of-life studies to offer provocative new readings of Warren's later poems, which he defines as those published after Audubon: A Vision (1969). In these often intricate poems, Millichap sees something like an autobiographical epic focused on t
  12. Aging and its discontents
    Freud and other fictions
    Author: Woodward, Kathleen M.
    Published: c1991
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

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    ISBN: 0253206200; 0253366402; 0585000786; 9780585000787
    RVK Categories: IE 2275
    Series: Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 13
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Littérature française / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Littérature anglaise / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Vieillissement dans la littérature; Alter; Literatur; Aging in literature; English literature; French literature; Literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Aging / psychology; Literature; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Literatur; French literature; Aging in literature; English literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Alter; Literatur
    Other subjects: Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939 / Influence; Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
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  13. Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear
    Author: Martin, Christopher
    Published: 2012; © 2012
    Publisher:  University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts]

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    ISBN: 9781558499720; 9781558499737; 9781613762196
    Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
    Subjects: English literature; Old age in literature; Aging in literature; Intergenerational relations in literature; Alter <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
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  14. Flaming embers
    literary testimonies on ageing and desire
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    ISBN: 9783034304382; 9783035100457
    Subjects: English literature; Desire in literature; Aging in literature; Alter <Motiv>; Begierde <Motiv>; Literatur; Englisch
    Scope: 361 p
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  15. Aging gracefully in the Renaissance
    stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne
    Author: Skenazi, Cynthia
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [The Netherlands]

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    ISBN: 9789004254664; 9789004255722
    Series: Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; volume 11
    Subjects: Geschichte; European literature; Aging in literature; Aging; Older people; Alter; Alter <Motiv>; Altern; Literatur
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  16. The raven and the falcon
    youth versus old age in medieval Arabic literature
    Author: Shuraydi, Hasan
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

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    ISBN: 9789004271609; 9789004278950
    Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; Volume 107
    Subjects: Arabic literature; Arabic literature; Old age in literature; Aging in literature; Youth in literature; Alter; Jugend; Adab; Klassisches Arabisch; Literatur
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  17. As time goes by
    portraits of age
    Contributor: Charnley, Joy (Publisher); Verdier, Caroline (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. United Kingdom

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    ISBN: 1443842451; 9781443842457; 9781443864862
    Subjects: Old age in literature; Aging in literature; Alter <Motiv>; Altern <Motiv>; Literatur
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  18. Aging, duration, and the English novel
    growing old from Dickens to Woolf
    Author: Jewusiak, Jacob
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a... more

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    The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel argues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one's chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity

     
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    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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    Subjects: English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Aging in literature; Altern <Motiv>; Roman; Englisch
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  19. Age rage and going gently
    stories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing
    Author: Davis, Oliver
    Published: 2006
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    ISBN: 9042020261; 9789042020269
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    Series: Faux titre ; no. 283
    Subjects: Aging in literature; French literature; Französisch; Alter <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 225 p
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  20. Contemporary narratives of dementia
    ethics, ageing, politics
    Author: Falcus, Sarah; Sako, Katsura
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    ISBN: 9781317208242; 1317208242
    Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
    Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 97
    Subjects: Aging in literature; Aging / Cross-cultural studies
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  21. Alterszäsuren
    Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte
    Contributor: Fitzon, Thorsten (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin [u.a.]

    How people relate to time is one of the oldest questions of mankind. This book centers on 'life phases' to show how the life cycle is structured, and it discusses how various theological and literary models denote and divide up the different phases... more

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    How people relate to time is one of the oldest questions of mankind. This book centers on 'life phases' to show how the life cycle is structured, and it discusses how various theological and literary models denote and divide up the different phases of life. These life-phase models reflect congruent or contrasting overall concepts of time. Using examples from texts from the Ancient Near Eastern era up to the 20th century, the contributions in the book discuss how the different life phases were construed and what potential the respective life phases offer for a time-critical reflection

     
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    ISBN: 9783110254792; 3110254794
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    Subjects: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General; Christentum; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Religion; Aging in literature; Aging; Aging; Lebensdauer; Lebensalter; Theologie; Literatur; Strukturierung; Lebensalter <Motiv>; Zeit <Motiv>; Alter <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Alter / i.d. Literatur; Lebensalter
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  22. A poetic language of ageing
    Contributor: Lehmann, Olga V. (Publisher); Synnes, Oddgeir (Publisher)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York

    "Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on ageing and later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and... more

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    "Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on ageing and later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?' As poetic language illuminates, transfigures and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us. Literary gerontology and narrative gerontology have highlighted the importance of linguistic representations of ageing. While the former has been concerned primarily with the analysis of published literary works, the latter has foregrounded the individual and collective meaning making through narrative resources in old age. There has, however, been less interest in how poetic language, both as a genre and as a practice, can illuminate ageing. This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by means of presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing written by poets from William Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens; the use of reading and writing poetry among ordinary people in old age; and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing - including personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors. The volume brings together international scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as cultural psychology, literary studies, theology, sociology, narrative medicine, cultural gerontology and narrative gerontology, and will deploy a variety of empirical and critical methodologies to explore how poetry and poetic language may challenge dominant discourses and illuminate alternative understandings of ageing."

     
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    ISBN: 9781350256835; 9781350256811
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    Subjects: Altern <Motiv>; Lyrik; Englisch
    Other subjects: Aging in literature; Old age in literature; Poetics
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  23. Aged Young Adults
    Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films
    Author: Wohlmann, Anita
    Published: 2014; ©2014.
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    When Toula's father in »My Big Fat Greek Wedding« says to his daughter (age 30) »you look so old« or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) »feels old« in »Cosmopolis«, these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little... more

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    When Toula's father in »My Big Fat Greek Wedding« says to his daughter (age 30) »you look so old« or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) »feels old« in »Cosmopolis«, these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little attention in age studies so far. Leaving aside chronological or biological dimensions of age, this study approaches age as a metaphoric practice, suggesting that »feeling old« is not to be taken literally but metaphorically. The book examines the cultural meanings of age and aging for characters who are in their twenties and thirties and challenges often-quoted labels such as late-coming-of-age story or perpetual adolescence.

     
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    Series: Aging Studies ; 4
    Subjects: Aging in literature; Motion pictures; Aging in motion pictures; American fiction; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
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  24. Age rage and going gently
    stories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    "This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the... more

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    "This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse, and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, Promenade au Pays de la Vieillesse. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Herve Guibert's recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise, is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury ('age rage') and serene acceptance ('going gently'), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject."--BOOK JACKET

     
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    Series: Faux titre ; 283
    Subjects: French literature; Aging in literature; French literature; Literature; Aging in literature; French literature; Ouderdom; Bellettrie; Frans; Criticism, interpretation, etc; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; French
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  25. Cultural histories of ageing
    myths, plots and metaphors of the senescent self
    Contributor: Vibe Skagen, Margery (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, New York

    How can literary studies contribute to a cultural history of ageing / Margery Vibe Skagen -- Narrative configurations of ageing and time / Jan Baars -- Using literary sources in a world history of ageing / David G. Troyansky -- Rêverie and late... more

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    How can literary studies contribute to a cultural history of ageing / Margery Vibe Skagen -- Narrative configurations of ageing and time / Jan Baars -- Using literary sources in a world history of ageing / David G. Troyansky -- Rêverie and late writing : from the exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire / Margery Vibe Skagen -- "By nature led" : old age in William Wordsworth's poem "Old man travelling" / Peter Svare Valeur -- Ageing and creativity in Goethe's last works / Charlotte Lee -- Senescence at the Russian fin-de-siècle : on the ageless and the ageing self of Lev Tolstoy / Lillian Jorunn Helle -- Taking care of the self : ageing in Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray / Michael Mack -- Thomas Hardy and the question of senescence / Emanuela Ettorre and Adrian Tait -- "I do not write a life" : Hamsun, psychiatry and life narrative / Svein Atle Skålevåg -- Solitude and senescence : May Sarton's sense of an ending / George Rousseau -- French female literary milestones in the history of ageing / Martine Boyer-Weinmann -- "Je suis vieux et très contemporain" : old age and modernity in the works of Michel Houellebecq / Agathe Novak-Lechevalier -- Elderly people's homes in contemporary literature : a new old world by Mariusz Sieniewicz / Hanna Serkowska -- An ageing woman's dilemma : the varieties of silence in Merethe Lindstrøm's novel Days in the history of silence / Nora Simonhjel. "Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally known humanistic gerontologist Jan Baars, the prominent historian of old age David Troyansky, and the distinguished cultural historian and pioneer in the field of literature and science George Rousseau join a team of literary historians who trace out the interfaces between their chosen texts and the respective periods' medical and gerontological knowledge. The chapters' in-depth analyses of major and less known works demonstrate the rich potential of fiction, poetry and autobiographical writing in the construction of a cultural history of senescence. These literary examples not only bear witness to longue durée representations of old age, and epochal transitions regarding cultural attitudes to the aged; they also foreground the subjectivities who produced some of these representations and who continue to communicate with readers of other times and places. By casting a net over a variety of authors, genres, periods and languages, the collection gives a broad sense of how literature is among the richest and most engaging sources for historicizing the ageing self"--

     
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    Contributor: Vibe Skagen, Margery (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781000383102; 1000383105; 9781003169208; 1003169201; 9781000383072; 1000383075
    Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 102
    Subjects: Old age in literature; Aging in literature; HISTORY / General ; bisacsh; HISTORY / Europe / Western ; bisacsh; HISTORY / Social History ; bisacsh; HISTORY / General; HISTORY / Europe / Western; HISTORY / Social History
    Scope: 1 online resource. (viii, 313 Seiten)