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oapen-20.500.12657-438652022-01-25T10:57:33Z Imagining Ageing Concilio, Carmen Social Science Sociology General bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2020-12-15T14:05:01Z 2020-12-15T14:05:01Z 2018 book 9783839444269 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43865 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269 103987 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839444269 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) transcript Verlag Bielefeld Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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