The seventh age of man : issues, challenges, and paradoxes /: issues, challenges, and paradoxes. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Muriel Cassel-Piccot and Geneviéve Lheureux.
• Editors: Cassel-Piccot, Muriel; Lheureux, Geneviéve
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Old Age in Contemporary Western Societies : Chapter One. Varieties of Experience in the "Seventh Age" / Patricia Thane -- Chapter Two. "Semi-collective Housing" and Self-managed Co-housing, between the Empowerment of the Aged and the Denial of the Fragility Associated with Age / Cécile Rosenfelder -- Part II. Old Age in the Renaissance, in England and Spain : Chapter Three. Old Age in Thomas More's Works: From a Poetical to a Spiritual Interpretation / Isabelle Bore -- Chapter Four. Old Age in the Works of Quevedo / Paloma Otaola Gonzalez -- Chapter Five. Old Age in Spanish Doctrinal Texts, from the Late Middle-Ages to the Seventeenth Century / Christine Orobitg -- Part III. The Representation of Old Age on Screen and in the Media : Chapter Six. The Mother-in-law and the Wise Old Man: Representing Old Age, Figuring Social Harmony in Contemporary Chinese TV Drama / Justine Rochot -- Chapter Seven. Ageing Popular Music Artists: French Newspaper Coverage of the Âge Tendre et Têtes de Bois Nostalgia Tour / Christopher Tinker -- Chapter Eight. Dracula: The Horror of Old Age, the Nightmare of Eternal Life / Gaëtane Plottier -- Part IV: The Experience of Old Age in Auto(fiction) : Chapter Nine. Female Ageing and the Fantastic in A.S. Byatt's Short Stories / Emilie Walezak -- Chapter Ten. The "Old Ox", the Old Queen", and the "Whale in a Pail of Water": Postcolonial Portraits of Old Age / Florence Labaune-Demeule -- Chapter Eleven. Two Irish Mature Voices on a Quest for Equanimity / Vanina Jobert-Martini -- Chapter Twelve. Winter Journal: The Chronicles of an Author and his Characters' Ageing Foretold / Marie Thévenon -- Contributors.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 200 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 305.26; Old age; Old age; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527526815
• Related ISBNs: 152752681X; 9781527509085; 1527509087
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.