Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on ageing and later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?' As poetic language illuminates, transfigures and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us. Literary gerontology and narrative gerontology have highlighted the importance of linguistic representations of ageing. While the former has been concerned primarily with the analysis of published literary works, the latter has foregrounded the individual and collective meaning making through narrative resources in old age. There has, however, been less interest in how poetic language, both as a genre and as a practice, can illuminate ageing. This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by means of presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing written by poets from William Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens; the use of reading and writing poetry among ordinary people in old age; and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing - including personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors. The volume brings together international scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as cultural psychology, literary studies, theology, sociology, narrative medicine, cultural gerontology and narrative gerontology, and will deploy a variety of empirical and critical methodologies to explore how poetry and poetic language may challenge dominant discourses and illuminate alternative understandings of ageing.

Band XIb-2 ist - abgesehen von einigen Ergdnzungen zu den Bdnden XIa und XIb-1 - den Sekunddrstoffen der Papilionoideae gewidmet und bietet einen wohl einmaligen \berblick ]ber die Chemotaxonomie und die sekunddren Inhaltsstoffe dieser Pflanzengruppe. Er ist daher von speziellem Interesse f]r Leguminosenforscher, Pharmakologen, Phytochemiker und Ethnobotaniker. Wie die Bdnde XIa und XIb-1 enthdlt auch dieser Band zahlreiche Literaturhinweise und ein Register mit taxonomischem Index und Stichwortverzeichnis. Dieser letzte Band stellt nach etwa vierzigjdhriger Arbeit den Abschluss der Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen von Robert Hegnauer dar. Der erste Band erschien 1962; bei der Aufnahme des Autors in die Leopoldina (1972) waren sechs Bdnde abgeschlossen, die alle Familien der hvheren Pflanzen mit Ausnahme der Leguminosen ber]cksichtigten. Diesen Bdnden folgten drei Nachtragsbdnde und ein Generalregister sowie drei Bdnde ]ber Leguminosen.

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