Ageing in Irish Writing Strangers to Themselves /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ingman, Heather (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study examines the portrayal of ageing i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Gerontology and its Challenges
• 2. Ageing, Time and Aesthetics: Dorian Gray, W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bowen's The Little Girls
• 3. Resisting the Narrative of Decline: Molly Keane, Time After Time, Deirdre Madden Authenticity and Anne Enright The Green Road
• 4. Ageing, the Individual and the Community: Iris Murdoch, John Banville and John McGahern
• 5. A Voice of Their Own: Portraits of Old Age in the Irish Short Story
• 6. Frail Old Age
• 7. Epilogue: The Bedbound and Dying.