LEADER 03162nam 22005415 450 001 9910300029603321 005 20240724135751.0 010 $a9783319964300 010 $a3319964305 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-96430-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000005249321 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-96430-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5471066 035 $a(Perlego)3493792 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005249321 100 $a20180718d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgeing in Irish Writing $eStrangers to Themselves /$fby Heather Ingman 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 209 p.) 311 08$a9783319964294 311 08$a3319964291 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aAge 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 in fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Deirdre Madden, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, John Banville, John McGahern, Norah Hoult and Edna O'Brien, among others. The chapters follow a logical thematic progression from efforts to hold back time, to resisting the decline narrative of ageing, solitary ageing versus ageing in the community, and dementia and the world of the bedbound and dying. One chapter analyses the changing portrayal of older people in the Irish short story. Recent demographic shifts in Ireland have focused attention on an increasing ageing population, making this study a timely intervention in the field of literary gerontology. 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a809.41 700 $aIngman$b Heather$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0777016 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300029603321 996 $aAgeing in Irish Writing$91910327 997 $aUNINA