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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Main Author: Ingman, Heather (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319964300
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505 0 |a 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. 
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