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A Poetic Language of Ageing (Hardcover)
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A Poetic Language of Ageing (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
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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.
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