Imagining Ageing

Imagining Ageing
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9783839444269
ISBN-13 : 3839444268
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Book Synopsis Imagining Ageing by : Carmen Concilio

Download or read book Imagining Ageing written by Carmen Concilio and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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