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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

    Edited by Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction

    Edited by Sarah Falcus, Maricel Oró-Piqueras ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
    Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Literature and Ageing

    by Elizabeth Barry, Margery Vibe Skagen, Peter Svare Valeur, Sarah Falcus, David Amigoni, Emily Timms, Helen Small, Jacob Jewusiak, Kathleen Woodward0, Margaret Morganroth Gullette1 ...
    The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, a new science of senescence, the availability of state pensions, and other phenomena of recent history. The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Contemporary Narratives of Dementia

    Ethics, Ageing, Politics

    by Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help us to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

    Edited by Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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  • Teaching Adaptations

    Edited by D. Cartmell, I. Whelehan ...
    Series series Teaching the New English
    Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle

    Edited by Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

    A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies

    Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, Kathrin Thiele ...
    Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geographically diverse case studies on different historical and contemporary figures. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Childhood Studies

    A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood

    Edited by Jean Mills, Richard Mills ...
    The nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media. This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into the next century.The book ... Read more

    $63.99 USD