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9780275964795: Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0275964795 ISBN 13: 9780275964795
Editorial: Praeger, 1999

Sinopsis

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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LAGRETTA TALLENT LENKER is Director of the Division of Lifelong Learning, Director of the Graduate Certificates Program, Co-Director of the Florida Center for Writers, Co-Director of the Center for Applied Humanities, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Aging and Identity at the University of South Florida, where she is also Adjunct Professor of English. She has co-edited several books, including Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Praeger, 1999) and The Politics and Processes of Scholarship (Greenwood, 1995).

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Editorial
Praeger
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0275964795
ISBN 13 
9780275964795
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
270
Editor
Lenker Lagretta Tallent, Deats Sara Munson
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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