Aging studies and ecocriticism : interdisciplinary encounters /: interdisciplinary encounters. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg.
• Editors: Balestrini, Nassim Winnie; Hoydis, Julia; Kainradl, Anna-Christina, 1981-; Kriebernegg, Ulla
• Contents: Acknowledgments Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg: Time, Relationality, and Fears of Ending: Encounters between Aging Studies and Ecocriticism Part I “Aging Bodies and Environments” 1 Silvia Gerlsbeck: “A World in Flux”: Temporality, Aging, and Environmental Change in V.S. Naipaul’s Late Work 2 Christian Lenz: Footprints in the Jungle: Creating a Legacy in the Rainforest 3 Jade E. French: “Zoological Outcasts” and the Aging Other in Jean Rhys’s Late Short Stories 4 Núria Mina-Riera: Embodying Age(ing) in the Non-Human World in Lorna Crozier’s Poetry 5 Simon Dickel: Beyond Reproductive Futurism: Harold and Maude’s Ecological Aesthetics 6 Tina-Karen Pusse and Michaela Schrage-Früh: Time Travel, Age/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020) Part II “Growing Old Amid Environmental Crises” 7 Adrian Tait: Imagining Longevity and Sustainability in Walter Besant’s The Inner House and William Morris’ News from Nowhere 8 Stephen Hahn: Literature and the “Cultural Scripting” of Aging and Dying 9 Julia Hoydis: Caring (for) Futures: Intergenerational Justice in Contemporary Drama 10 Julia Henderson and Katrina Dunn: Old(er) Women and the Apocalypse: Three Dramatic Representations 11 Albert Banerjee: Learning to Live Well within Limits: Exploring the Existential Lessons of Climate Change and an Aging Population Part III Afterword 12 Peter J. Whitehouse: Emergent Cosmic Return: The Field of Possibilities for Aging in a Proposed New Geological Epoch About the Authors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93354; Aging in literature; Ecology in literature; Ecocriticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781666914757
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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