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Title

The ages of life : living and aging in conflict? / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer (eds.).

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Kriebernegg, Ulla
• Maierhofer, Roberta.
• Maierhofer, Roberta

Description

256 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Living and aging as a productive antagonism. Aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life."--Publishers website

Series Statement

Aging studies ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Aging studies ; v. 3.

Subject

• Aging > Social aspects
• Gerontology
• Older people > Social conditions
• Aging in literature

Note

• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The ages of life / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer -- Positive aging in an age of neo-liberalism / Marvin Formosa -- Celebrating or denying age? / Karin Lövgren -- Age-related disability / Sharon-Dale Stone -- "The journey into the land of forgetfulness" / Heinrich Grebe, Welf-Gerrit Otto, Harm-Peer Zimmermann -- Representation of old age in media / Julian Wangler -- Age images in advertising / Eva Klein -- Of mimicry and age / Thomas Küpper -- The irony of the ages of life / Cynthia Skenazi -- Past the mirror of Victorian aging and beyond / Marta Miquel-Baldellou -- Beyond dis-ease / Emma Domínguez-Rué -- Growing old and searching for identity in Anne Tyler's Noah's compass (2009) and Umberto Eco's The mysterious flame of Queen Loana (2004) / Helen Chupin -- Man, interrupted / Katharina Zilles -- Too old to rock? / Dana Bǎdulescu -- Contributors.

ISBN

9783837622126 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 843865661
• SCSB-13370340

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library