Heather Ingman

Ageing in Irish Writing (eBook, PDF)

Strangers to Themselves

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319964300
• Artikelnr.: 53273568

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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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.

Rezensionen

"Highly recommended for all Irish Studies collections and for many general collections." (Donald E. Morse, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 26 (1), 2020)