Narratives of life : mediating age / edited by Heike Hartung and Roberta Maierhofer.
- Title
- Narratives of life : mediating age / edited by Heike Hartung and Roberta Maierhofer.
- Published by
- Wien : Lit, c2009.
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- Description
- 202 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Narratives of Life: Mediating Age. The prospect of increasing longevity has turned aging and old age into a topic of concern in Western societies. The discourse of age and the proliferation of narrative in contemporary media culture both transgress disciplinary boundaries. Addressing the "narratives of life" from different disciplinary angles this volume aims to explore the scope of a narrative gerontology. Aging and the stories that are told about it or from within are transnational and transcultural phenomena. While aging is thus a universal process, attention is also drawn to the categories of difference that it evokes: Historical, social and cultural differences as well as gender differences."--Publisher's website.
- Series statement
- Aging studies in Europe ; Bd. 1
- Uniform title
- Aging studies in Europe ; Bd. 1.
- Alternative title
- Mediating age
- Subject
- Contents
- Part 1: Age narratives of self and other. Our best and longest running story: Why is telling progress narrative so necessary, and so difficult? / Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; Narrative as intercultural drama: Life-writing by aged migrants / Rüdiger Kunow ; Identity construction in the third age: The role of self-narratives / Gerben J. Westerhof ; The joy of aging: Alex Comfort and the popularization of gerontology / Robert Goff. -- Part 2: Allegories of old age, time, and gender. Philip Roth's fictions of intimacy and the aging of America / Georgiana Banita ; "So he will spare him four-and-twenty years, letting him live in all voluptuousness" - Faust and time / Tanja Nusser ; Avarice as an old woman: Age and gender in the image of vice / Antje Grötzsch. -- Part 3: Mediating male and female old age. The aged traveler: Cinematic representations of post-retirement masculinity / Gabriele Mueller ; "One nice thing about getting old is taht nothing frightens you" - From page to screen: Rethinking women's old age in Howl's Moving Castle / Aagje Swinnen ; Performing old age on stage: Selected plays by Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
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