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   From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature » Read Now

   by Barbara Frey Waxman. 212 pgs.

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   This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women on the subject of aging. It discusses the emergence of a new fictional genre--the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman. The book contains an extensive bibliography of 20th-century popular periodical articles on aging...

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   This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women on the subject of aging. It discusses the emergence of a new fictional genre--the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman. The book contains an extensive bibliography of 20th-century popular periodical articles on aging (Canadian, American, and British), literary critical articles on aging in the fiction of Doris Lessing, Alice Adams, Paule Marshall, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and Margaret Laurence, as well a general literary critical works on these authors, and some general (nonliterary) studies of aging, such as Simone de Beavoir's The Coming Age.

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   Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective » Read Now

   by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 256 pgs.

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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...

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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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   Folklore, Culture, and Aging: A Research Guide » Read Now

   by David P. Shuldiner. 283 pgs.

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   A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as "Customs and Beliefs," "Narratives," "Traditional Arts," "Health and Healing," and "Applied...

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   A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as "Customs and Beliefs," "Narratives," "Traditional Arts," "Health and Healing," and "Applied Folklore," and is further divided into regional and topical subheadings. It also features works on methods and concepts in field research in folklore, oral history, and community studies, a chapter on general works from other fields of interest, as well as a chapter on films. The introduction offers not only a description of the nature and role of elders as creators and carriers of culture, but also a challenge to readers--reflected in the broad range of materials cited--defying both narrow conceptions of aging and the aged, and limited notions about the full scope of expressive culture addressed by folklore studies.

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   Second Thoughts: Reflections on Literature and on Life » Read Now

   by Francois Mauriac. 184 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...short-order writer. The snack bars of literature take precedence over restaurants, as...thinking, what helps a writer persevere in his work and overcome his weariness...
   
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   Promoting Positive Attitudes toward Aging: Literature for Young Children, in Childhood Education » Read Now

   by Sandra L. McGuire. 7 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library
   
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   Bertolt Brecht's and Karin Michaelis's 'Streitigkeiten': Reflections on Old Age and Literature, in Germanic Review » Read Now

   by Beverley Driver Eddy. 5 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...Reflections on Old Age and Literature * BEVERLEY DRIVER...works published in 1967. 1 This is...on the nature of literature, on issues of humor...reality." Finally, in the...