Research Catalog

Title

Literature and gerontology : a research guide / Robert E. Yahnke and Richard M. Eastman.

Author

Yahnke, Robert E.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eastman, Richard M., 1916-2009

Description

xv, 231 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Annotated bibliography ; shows how literacy works (autobiographical works, novels, plays, poems and stories) can convey the complex nature of growing old in diverse social and cultural contexts.

Series Statement

Bibliographies and indexes in gerontology, 0743-7560 ; no. 29

Uniform Title

Bibliographies and indexes in gerontology ; no. 29.

Subject

• Old age in literature
• Aging > Social aspects
• Older people > Social conditions
• Old age in literature > Bibliography
• Gerontology literature
• Older people
• Aging
• Older people > Social aspects
• Geriatrics
• Aged
• Aging
• elderly
• Older people
• Aging > Social aspects
• Gerontology literature
• Old age in literature
• Older people > Social conditions
• Alter Motiv
• Gerontologie
• Literatur
• Gerontologie
• Ouderen
• Letterkunde
• Engels
• Aging > Social aspects > Bibliography
• Older people > Social conditions > Bibliography
• Alter <Motiv>

Genre/Form

• Abstracts
• Bibliography
• bibliographies.
• Bibliographies
• Bibliographies.
• Abstracts.
• Résumés analytiques.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Contents

pt. 1. Essays on topics in gerontology -- Outline of topics in gerontology -- Aging and society -- Aging and relationships -- Aging and physical wealth -- Psychological responses to aging -- Life events and the search for meaning -- pt. 2. Annotations of literary works -- Anthologies -- Autobiographies -- Novels -- Plays -- Poems -- Stories.

ISBN

• 031329349X
• 9780313293498

LCCN

95002462

OCLC

• ocm32130844
• 32130844
• SCSB-2087243

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library