1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792503803321

Autore

Tittensor Ruth

Titolo

Shades of green : an environmental and cultural history of Sitka spruce / / Ruth Tittensor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Havertown, Pennsylvania : , : Windgather Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-909686-80-8

1-909686-78-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

Disciplina

634.9752

Soggetti

Environmental studies

Sitka spruce - United States

Sitka spruce - Great Britain

Great Britain

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910433241203321

Titolo

Imagining Ageing : Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures / Carmen Concilio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

9783839444269

3839444268

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Collana

Aging Studies

Classificazione

HG 431

Disciplina

809.93354

Soggetti

Anglophone Literatures

Aging

Geriatrics

World Literature

Film

Medicine

Aging Studies

Literature

Cultural Studies

General Literature Studies

British Studies

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Editor's Introduction    7 Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land    13 Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men    19 Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe    27 The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending    41 "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute    61 A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain    85 "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her    103



Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello    127 Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway    141 "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Mori Case    165 Ageing and Neurologic Disease    183 Contributors    203

Sommario/riassunto

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.

Besprochen in:Journal of Irish Studies, 9 (2019)