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.
Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson CrusoeSeiten 27 - 40 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes''s The Sense of an EndingSeiten 41 - 60 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
"Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The ''Plot'' of Thomas Kinsella''s Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio''s De senectuteSeiten 61 - 84 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney''s Poetry on Ageing in Human ChainSeiten 85 - 102 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
"The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer''s Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley''s Away From HerSeiten 103 - 126 Carmen Concilio Download Kapitel (PDF)
Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee''s Age of Iron and Elizabeth CostelloSeiten 127 - 140 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs DallowaySeiten 141 - 164 Carmen Concilio Download Kapitel (PDF)
"Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Māori CaseSeiten 165 - 182 Blossom Fondo Download Kapitel (PDF)
