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A Poetic Language of Ageing (Hardcover): Olga V. Lehmann, Oddgeir Synnes A Poetic Language of Ageing (Hardcover)
Olga V. Lehmann, Oddgeir Synnes
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synnes, Ingunn Moser Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synnes, Ingunn Moser
R3,635 Discovery Miles 36 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested, and open to negotiation and experimentation. By bringing together approaches from STS, anthropology, health humanities and health care studies, the book points to the importance of people's tinkerings and experiments with making home, as it is here that home is being made and unmade.

Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synnes, Ingunn Moser Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synnes, Ingunn Moser
R3,611 Discovery Miles 36 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested, and open to negotiation and experimentation. By bringing together approaches from STS, anthropology, health humanities and health care studies, the book points to the importance of people's tinkerings and experiments with making home, as it is here that home is being made and unmade.

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