Ageing in Irish Writing: Strangers to Themselves

by Heather Ingman

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Gerontology and its Challenges.- 2. Ageing, Time and Aesthetics: Dorian Gray, W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bowen's The Little Girls.- 3. Resisting the Narrative of Decline: Molly Keane, Time After Time, Deirdre Madden Authenticity and Anne Enright The Green Road.- 4. Ageing, the Individual and the Community: Iris Murdoch, John Banville and John McGahern.- 5. A Voice of Their Own: Portraits of Old Age...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030071898
• ISBN13: 9783030071899
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"