Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this open access book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer''s disease.Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease.They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development. The ook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria.

Product details

• Authors: Heike Hartung, Rudiger Kunow, Matthew Sweney
• Assisted by: Heike Hartung (Editor), Hartung Heike (Editor), Rüdiger Kunow (Editor), Kate De Medeiros (Editor), Matthew Sweney (Editor), Sweney Matthew (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350237483
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23748-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life; Bloomsbury Studies in the Huma
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Autobiography: literary, Psychology of ageing, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Maturation and ageing, Alzheimer’s and dementia, Film history, theory or criticism, Relating to late adulthood / old age