Ageing in Irish Writing Strangers to Themselves /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
