The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?

Published by transcript Verlag 2013

The Ages of Life

Living and Aging in Conflict?

Edited by: Ulla Kriebernegg and Roberta Maierhofer

Volume 3 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839422120

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Ulla Kriebernegg is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and an associate professor of American Studies at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research awards.
Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research focuses on (Inter)American literature and culture, gender and age/aging.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	5
The Ages of Life Living and Aging in Conflict? Ulla Kriebernegg and Roberta Maierhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Methods and Approaches
Positive Aging in an Age of Neo-liberalism Old Wine in New Bottles? Marvin Formosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Celebrating or Denying Age? On Cultural Studies as an Analytical Approach in Gerontology Karin Lövgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Age-Related Disability Believing is Seeing is Experiencing Sharon-Dale Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Aged by Law Ages of Life in Austrian Law Jürgen Pirker and Nora Melzer-Azodanloo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Representations of Ages of Life in Media and Art
“The Journey into the Land of Forgetfulness” Metaphors of Aging and Dementia in Media Heinrich Grebe, Welf-Gerrit Otto and Harm-Peer Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Representation of Old Age in Media Fear of Aging or Cult of Youth? Julian Wangler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Age Images in Advertising An Art-Historical Analysis of Adver tisement Images in the Austrian Province of Styria Eva Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Of Mimicry and Age Fashion Ambivalences of the Young-Old Thomas Küpper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Representation of Ages of Life in Literature
The Irony of the Ages of Life Etienne Pasquier’s Les Jeus Poetiques (1610) Cynthia Skenazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Past the Mirror of Victorian Aging and Beyond Recurring Transatlantic Archetypes of the Aged Marta Miquel-Baldellou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Beyond Dis-Ease Positive Female Aging against the Cult of Invalidism in Ellen Glasgow’s Last Two Novels Emma Domínguez-Rué Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
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 Helen Chupin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Man, Interrupted Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Old Age in John Coet zee’s Slow Man Katharina Zilles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Too Old To Rock? Rushdie’s Vina Apsara “Surging into Her Mid-Forties Full of Beauty and Courage” Dana Bădulescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Aging; Life Course; Identity; Cultural Gerontology; Concepts of Time; Gender; Aging Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; American Studies; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839422120