Kriebernegg / Maierhofer The Ages of Life

Living and Aging in Conflict?
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2212-0
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Aging Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kriebernegg, Ulla

Maierhofer, Roberta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Inhalt;5
2;The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?;9
3;METHODS AND APPROACHES;19
3.1;Positive Aging in an Age of Neo-liberalism Old Wine in New Bottles?;21
3.2;Celebrating or Denying Age? On Cultural Studies as an Analytical Approach in Gerontology;37
3.3;Age-Related Disability: Believing is Seeing is Experiencing;57
3.4;Aged by Law: Ages of Life in Austrian Law;71
4;REPRESENTATIONS OF AGES OF LIFE IN MEDIA AND ART;87
4.1;“The Journey into the Land of Forgetfulness” Metaphors of Aging and Dementia in Media;89
4.2;Representation of Old Age in Media Fear of Aging or Cult of Youth?;107
4.3;Age Images in Advertising: An Art-Historical Analysis of Advertisement Images in the Austrian Province of Styria;121
4.4;Of Mimicry and Age Fashion Ambivalences of the Young-Old;133
5;REPRESENTATION OF AGES OF LIFE IN LITERATURE;145
5.1;The Irony of the Ages of Life Etienne Pasquier’s Les Jeus Poetiques (1610);147
5.2;Past the Mirror of Victorian Aging and Beyond: Recurring Transatlantic Archetypes of the Aged;159
5.3;Beyond Dis-Ease Positive Female Aging against the Cult of Invalidism in Ellen Glasgow’s Last Two Novels;177
5.4;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;193
5.5;Man, Interrupted Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Old Age in John Coetzee’s Slow Man;211
5.6;Too Old To Rock? Rushdie’s Vina Apsara “Surging into Her Mid-Forties Full of Beauty and Courage”;235
6;Contributors;253

Über Autor(innen)

Maierhofer, Roberta
Roberta Maierhofer ist Professorin für Amerikanistik und Leiterin des Zentrums für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Transatlantische Bildungskooperationen, Interkulturalität, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, kulturelle Gerontologie und Alternswissenschaften.

Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair of the European Network in Aging Studies.
Roberta Maierhofer is Professor of (Inter)American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University, New York. Her research focuses on American Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education, Inter-American Studies and Age/Aging Studies.