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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Examines literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging, through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts.
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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.
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.
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Shakespeares King Lear and Prospero dramatize many of the problems confronting almost everyone fortunate enough to survive to "a ripe old age": the problem of allowing their children the freedom to live their own lives, the problem of coping with retirement, and the problem of accepting change and finding it a challenge and an opportunity rather than a threat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Havisham, Jessie Mae, King Lear, Snow White, Virginia Woolf, Native American, Betty Friedan, Miss Jane, Count Greffi, The Tempest, Aunt Susie, Miss Brill, Count Mippipopolous, Aunt Mehetabel, Miss Pickthorn, The Trip, Buena Vista, The Fountain of Age, World War, Madame Palatine, New York, Satis House, The Seventh Seal, Best Song, Grandma A'mooh New!
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Shakespeares King Lear and Prospero dramatize many of the problems confronting almost everyone fortunate enough to survive to "a ripe old age": the problem of allowing their children the freedom to live their own lives, the problem of coping with retirement, and the problem of accepting change and finding it a challenge and an opportunity rather than a threat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Havisham, Jessie Mae, King Lear, Snow White, Virginia Woolf, Native American, Betty Friedan, Miss Jane, Count Greffi, The Tempest, Aunt Susie, Miss Brill, Count Mippipopolous, Aunt Mehetabel, Miss Pickthorn, The Trip, Buena Vista, The Fountain of Age, World War, Madame Palatine, New York, Satis House, The Seventh Seal, Best Song, Grandma A'mooh New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Fountain of Age by Betty Friedan on 14 pages
- The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway on 6 pages
- A Worn Path by Eudora Welty on 6 pages
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines on 5 pages
- Virginia Woolf (Ensayo-Biografico) (Spanish Edition) by Quentin Bell on 5 pages
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- Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw: (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Lagretta Lenker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal by Stephen G. Post in Back Matter
- Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject: Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life (New Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life) by Britt-Marie Oberg in Front Matter
- Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations by Erin Campbell in Back Matter
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