Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective

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Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999 - 256 sayfa
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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.

 

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The Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeares King Lear and The Tempest
23
Shakespeare Teaching Geriatrics Lear and Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity
33
Why? versus Why Not? Potentialities of Aging in Shaws Back to Methuselah
47
Hemingways Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis
61
Bertrand Russell in His Nineties Aging and the Problem of Biography
77
THE AGING FEMALE IN LITERATURE
87
Work Contentment and Identity in Aging Women in Literature
89
Old Maids and Old Mansions The Barren Sisters of Hawthorne Dickens and Faulkner
103
Aging and Academe Caricature or Character
161
Aging and the Public Schools Visits of Charity The Young Look at the Old
169
AGING IN THE FINE AND POPULAR ARTS
181
Aging and Contemporary Art
183
The Return Home Affirmations and Transformations of Identity in Horton Footes The Trip to Bountiful
191
Animated Gerontophobia Ageism Sexism and the Disney Villainess
201
8 12 and Me The ThirtyTwoYear Difference
213
Notes
229

The Aging Artist The Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf
115
AGING IN THE COMMUNITY
127
The Sacred Ghost The Role of the Elderly in Native American Literature
129
Aging and the AfricanAmerican Community The Case of Ernest J Gaines
139
Aging and the Continental Community Good Counsel in the Writings of Two Mature European Princesses Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palati...
149
Bibliography
231
Index
247
About the Editors and Contributors
255
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
Sara Munson Deats,Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 1999

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SARA MUNSON DEATS is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of South Florida, and Co-director of the Center of Applied Humanities. She is also author of Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1997).

LAGRETTA TALLENT LENKER is Director of the Division of Lifelong Learning and Co-director of the Center for Aplied Humanities and the Florida Center for Writers at the University of South Florida. She was co-editor with Joseph Moxley for The Politics of Scholarship, (Greenwood, 1995).

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BaşlıkAging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
EditörlerSara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker
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YayıncıGreenwood Publishing Group, 1999
ISBN0275964795, 9780275964795
Uzunluk256 sayfa
  
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