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Spätwerke sind nicht gleich- zusetzen mit Alterswerken. Sie allein über ihre Entstehung am Ende einer Epoche zu definieren, griffe aber ebenfalls zu kurz. Doch was kann an einem Werk denn 'spät' sein? Sandro Zanetti findet eine Antwort auf diese Frage, indem er sich auf diejenigen Zeitbezüge konzentriert, die in einem literarischen Werk selbst markiert sein können. Spätzeitlichkeit ist dann nicht mehr einfach eine Kategorie, die von außen - über die Biographie oder die Epoche - an ein Werk herangetragen wird, sondern eine Qualität, die in der Struktur einer literarischen Arbeit selbst zum Tragen kommen kann.
Old age in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Older people in literature
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Was heißt: Gutes Leben im Alter? Welche Beispiele für gelungene und misslungene Lebensformen des Alter(n)s bietet die Literatur-geschichte? War es früher an-ders als heute? Was bedeuten Würde und Selbstbestimmung im Alter? Alter(n) als Lebenskunst will gelernt sein und dabei kön-nen die Erfahrungen der Literatur helfen, einen selbstbestimmten Zugang zu finden. Das gilt nicht nur für die Alten, sondern auch für die Jungen. Hans Georg Potts neues Buch behauptet seinen Platz in der Vielzahl von Publikationen zum Thema ‚Alter’ und ‚alternde Ge-sellschaft’ darin, dass es einige der oft erwähnten, aber selten oder nie genau gelesenen ‚gro-ßen’ Werke und Schriften zur Altersthematik einer ins Einzelne gehenden nachdenkenden Lektüre unterzieht. Im Unter-schied zu Schriften zur alternden Gesellschaft und zum demogra-phischen Wandel, in Abgrenzung auch zu ‚subjektiven’ Erfah-rungsberichten über das Altwer-den, wird von alten Menschen in der Literatur erzählt, von denen in allen Kulturen und zu allen Zeiten, seit es schriftliche Auf-zeichnungen gibt, berichtet wird. Das Erbe der Antike ist für dieses Thema vorbildlich, aber nur, weil es heute anders ist und also Al-ternativen aufgezeigt werden können. Im Mittelpunkt der Er-kundungen steht der einzelne alte Mensch, sein Wille und seine Würde, und nicht die ‚Alten’, wie sie lediglich als eine kritische Masse von Rentnerpopulationen betrachtet werden, welche die Stabilität der Gesellschaft und ihren schönen Schein gefährden.
Old age in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism.
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Classical literature --- Old age in literature --- Old age --- Old age --- History and criticism
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Aging in literature --- Comedy --- Old age in literature --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Characters --- Older people.
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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Graz and the Department of Health, Care, and Science of the Office of the Regional Government of Styria, Austria. Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease. They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development."--
Alzheimer's disease. --- Aging. --- Masculinity. --- Dementia --- Diseases in literature. --- Old age in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Patients.
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New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature. The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old age is an uneventful time outside of the parameters of literary narrative. Instead, age increasingly is the story. As the older population swells, political crises are construed as the old stealing from the young, and the rights of older people are sacrificed to the economics of care, it becomes ever more important to think about and question, as literature does, the symbolic aspects of ageing - the cultural imaginary that determines the way that society sees old age. The work in this volume explores age stories in relation to futurity, precarity and climate change. It brings to light narratives of resistance to colonial imperialism and reproductive futurism framed in terms of age; and tests the lived experience of growing old and the challenge it offers to individualistic conceptions of selfhood, work and care. The literary works examined - hailing from England, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, and including texts by Margaret Drabble, Samuel Beckett and Matthew Thomas - ask how we feel about ageing - so often the determinant of how we think about it.
English literature --- History and criticism. --- 1800-2099 --- Old age in literature --- American literature --- Japanese literature --- Caribbean literature
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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Graz and the Department of Health, Care, and Science of the Office of the Regional Government of Styria, Austria. Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease. They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development."--
Alzheimer's disease. --- Aging. --- Masculinity. --- Dementia --- Diseases in literature. --- Old age in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Patients.
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Greek poetry --- Old age in literature --- Old age --- History and criticism --- -Old age in literature --- Older people in literature --- Greek literature --- Old age in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Senescence --- Adulthood --- Age --- Longevity --- Older people --- Greek poetry - History and criticism --- Old age - Greece
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Children's literature --- -Old age in literature --- Literature, Comparative --- -Children --- -82-93 --- 82-93 Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Older people in literature --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Comparative literature --- Juvenile literature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Books and reading --- -Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Children --- Old age in literature --- 82-93 --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Old age in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives.
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