Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction / Concilio, Carmen -- Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land / Canton, Licia -- Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men / Bertinetti, Paolo -- Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe / Folena, Lucia -- The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending / Piciucco, Pier Paolo -- "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute / Badin, Donatella -- A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain / De Angelis, Irene -- "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her / Concilio, Carmen -- Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello / Fondo, Blossom -- Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway / Concilio, Carmen -- "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Māori Case / Della Valle, Paola -- Ageing and Neurologic Disease / Favaro, Enrica -- Contributors.

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and Postcolonial Literature. The contributors take a look at texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Withi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and suggest solutions - with the help of a Medical study - to the challenges that come with the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.

In English.

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