A poetic language of ageing. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes.
• Editors: Lehmann, Olga V; Synnes, Oddgeir
• Contents: List of Contributors Foreword Gregory Orr AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Poetic Language of Ageing Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes1. The Mother of Beauty: Notes on the (Possible) Poetry of Dementia Mark Freeman2. Poetry and Dementia: Imagining and Shaping More Just Futures Aagje Swinnen3. Time and Dignity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Poetry Writing in Dementia Care Oddgeir Synnes, Eva Gjengedaland Målfrid Råheim4. Growing Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese Expats in Denmark Kyoko Murakami5. Poetry Lasts Forever: Case Study of a 100-year-old Brazilian Poet and His Daughter Ana Cecilia de Sousa Bastos6. 'An Old Man Can Do Somewhat': Styles of Male Old Age in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 Arthur W. Frank7. Virtuous Ageing as a Poetic Endeavour: Motivations to Write and Effects of Writing among Older Adults in Norway Olga V. Lehmann andSvend Brinkmann8. The Poetics of Growing Old: Metaphoric Competence and the Philosophic Homework of Later Life William L. Randall9. Poetry, Science, and a Science of Poetry: With an Illustration of Poetry and Ageing Steven R. Brown10. Writing Lives Merete Mazzarella11. Other Voices: George Oppen, Dementia, and the Echo of Lyric Alastair Morrison Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.93354; Aging in literature; Old age in literature; Poetics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350256828; 9781350256811
• Related ISBNs: 9781350256804
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