Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Hardcover)

Introduction by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker The Aging Male in Literature The Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest by Sara Munson Deats Shakespeare Teaching Geriatrics: Lear and Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity by Kirk Combe and Kenneth Schmader Why? versus Why Not? Potentialities of Aging in Shaw's Back to Methuselah by Lagretta Tallent Lenker Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis by Phillip Sipiora Bertrand Russell in His Nineties: Aging and the Problem of Biography by William T. Ross The Aging Female in Literature Work, Contentment, and Identity in Aging Women in Literature by Rosalie Murphy Baum Old Maids and Old Mansions: The Barren Sisters of Hawthorne, Dickens, and Faulkner by Maryhelen C. Harmon The Aging Artist: The Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Trautmann Banks Aging in the Community The Sacred Ghost: The Role of the Elder(ly) in Native American Literature by David Erben Aging and the African-American Community: The Case of Ernest J. Gaines by Charles J. Heglar and Annye L. Refoe Aging and the Continental Community: Good Counsel in the Writings of Two Mature European Princesses, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palatine by Christine McCall Probes Aging and Academe: Caricature or Character by Helen Popovich and Deborah Noonan Aging and the Public Schools: Visits of Charity-The Young Look at the Old by Ralph M. Cline Aging in the Fine and Popular Arts Aging and Contemporary Art by Linnea S. Dietrich The Return Home: Affirmations of Aging and Transformations of Identity in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful by Carol J. Jablonski Animated Gerontophobia: Ageism, Sexism, and the Disney Villainess by Merry G. Perry 8 1/2 and Me: The Thirty-Two Year Difference by Norman N. Holland Bibliography Index