A Poetic Language of Ageing

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as ''how can we understand ageing and later life?'' and ''how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?'' As poetic language illuminates, transfigures and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us. This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by means of presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing ranging from William Shakespeare to George Oppen; the use of reading and writing poetry among lay people in old age, including persons living with dementia; and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing - counting personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors.>

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• Authors: Olga V Lehmann, Oddgeir Synnes
• Assisted by: Olga V Lehmann (Editor), Olga V. Lehmann (Editor), Kate De Medeiros (Editor), Oddgeir Synnes (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781350256842
• ISBN: 978-1-350-25684-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophy of Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Age groups: the elderly, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Medical Sociology, Maturation and ageing, Maturation & Ageing, Literary studies: from c 2000