The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?

✍ Scribed by Ulla Kriebernegg (editor); Roberta Maierhofer (editor)

Publisher: transcript Verlag
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Series: Aging Studies; 3
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research.
The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.

✦ Table of Contents

Inhalt
The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?
METHODS AND APPROACHES
Positive Aging in an Age of Neo-liberalism Old Wine in New Bottles?
Celebrating or Denying Age? On Cultural Studies as an Analytical Approach in Gerontology
Age-Related Disability: Believing is Seeing is Experiencing
Aged by Law: Ages of Life in Austrian Law
REPRESENTATIONS OF AGES OF LIFE IN MEDIA AND ART
“The Journey into the Land of Forgetfulness” Metaphors of Aging and Dementia in Media
Representation of Old Age in Media Fear of Aging or Cult of Youth?
Age Images in Advertising: An Art-Historical Analysis of Advertisement Images in the Austrian Province of Styria
Of Mimicry and Age Fashion Ambivalences of the Young-Old
REPRESENTATION OF AGES OF LIFE IN LITERATURE
The Irony of the Ages of Life Etienne Pasquier’s Les Jeus Poetiques (1610)
Past the Mirror of Victorian Aging and Beyond: Recurring Transatlantic Archetypes of the Aged
Beyond Dis-Ease Positive Female Aging against the Cult of Invalidism in Ellen Glasgow’s Last Two Novels
Growing Old and Searching for Identity in Anne Tyler’s Noah’s Compass (2009) and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004): A Contemporary Semantics of Aging
Man, Interrupted Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Old Age in John Coetzee’s Slow Man
Too Old To Rock? Rushdie’s Vina Apsara “Surging into Her Mid-Forties Full of Beauty and Courage”
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