Aging and Identity

A Humanities Perspective
Herausgeber: Deats, Sara Munson; Lenker, Lagretta Tallent

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780275964795
• ISBN-10: 0275964795
• Artikelnr.: 21948427

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker The Aging
Male in Literature The Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeare's King Lear and
The Tempest by Sara Munson Deats Shakespeare Teaching Geriatrics: Lear and
Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity by Kirk Combe and Kenneth
Schmader Why? versus Why Not? Potentialities of Aging in Shaw's Back to
Methuselah by Lagretta Tallent Lenker Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the
Concept of Phronesis by Phillip Sipiora Bertrand Russell in His Nineties:
Aging and the Problem of Biography by William T. Ross The Aging Female in
Literature Work, Contentment, and Identity in Aging Women in Literature by
Rosalie Murphy Baum Old Maids and Old Mansions: The Barren Sisters of
Hawthorne, Dickens, and Faulkner by Maryhelen C. Harmon The Aging Artist:
The Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Trautmann Banks
Aging in the Community The Sacred Ghost: The Role of the Elder(ly) in
Native American Literature by David Erben Aging and the African-American
Community: The Case of Ernest J. Gaines by Charles J. Heglar and Annye L.
Refoe Aging and the Continental Community: Good Counsel in the Writings of
Two Mature European Princesses, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palatine
by Christine McCall Probes Aging and Academe: Caricature or Character by
Helen Popovich and Deborah Noonan Aging and the Public Schools: Visits of
Charity-The Young Look at the Old by Ralph M. Cline Aging in the Fine and
Popular Arts Aging and Contemporary Art by Linnea S. Dietrich The Return
Home: Affirmations of Aging and Transformations of Identity in Horton
Foote's The Trip to Bountiful by Carol J. Jablonski Animated Gerontophobia:
Ageism, Sexism, and the Disney Villainess by Merry G. Perry 8 1/2 and Me:
The Thirty-Two Year Difference by Norman N. Holland Bibliography Index