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When Toula's father in »My Big Fat Greek Wedding« says to his daughter (age 30) »you look so old« or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) »feels old« in »Cosmopolis«, these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little attention in age studies so far. Leaving aside chronological or biological dimensions of age, this study approaches age as a metaphoric practice, suggesting that »feeling old« is not to be taken literally but metaphorically. The book examines the cultural meanings of age and aging for characters who are in their twenties and thirties and challenges often-quoted labels such as late-coming-of-age story or perpetual adolescence.
American fiction --- Motion pictures --- Aging in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Age and Aging; Coming-of-Age; Life Stages; United States; Novels; Films; Aging Studies; Literature; Film; American Studies; Cultural Studies --- Aging Studies. --- American Studies. --- Coming-of-Age. --- Cultural Studies. --- Film. --- Films. --- Life Stages. --- Literature. --- Novels. --- United States.
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"Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence"--
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Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations of age and aging, such as in »Orange Is The New Black«, »The Wire« or »Desperate Housewives«, to understand what it means to live in time. »Die Darstellung des menschlichen Alterungsprozesses sowie von alten Menschen in den Narrativen des Mainstream-Fernsehens ist häufig unkonventionell - gleichzeitig jedoch wird diese Neuartigkeit immer noch mit stereotypen Elementen aufgeweicht. Es ist ein großer Verdienst dieser Publikation, dass in den elf durchweg sehr guten Aufsätzen beide Aspekte differenziert herausgearbeitet werden.« Vincent Fröhlich, MEDIENwissenschaft, 4 (2016) »The book can thus be read as a first step in this direction, and it clearly outlines the desiderata to be dealt with in future studies.« Andreas Hudelist, www.theaterforschung.de, 08.04.2016 Besprochen in: tv diskurs, 1 (2017), Lothar Mikos
Older people on television. --- Television and older people. --- Television series --- Series, Television --- Television serials --- Television programs --- Older people and television --- Television and the aged --- Older people --- Aged in television --- Aged on television --- Television --- Social aspects. --- TV Series; Old Age; Age; Aging; Temporality; Aging Studies; Television; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; Cultural Studies --- Age. --- Aging Studies. --- Aging. --- Cultural Studies. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Studies. --- Old Age. --- Television. --- Temporality.
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Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form. »Each of the articles that compose the collection invites the readers into a nuanced analysis of protagonists who live through intense pain and illness, highlighting the potentialities of language as well as the contradictions that arise inside the same protagonists between their failing bodies, their selves and societys expectations.« Maricel Or-Piqueras, Ageculturehumanities, 5(2020)
Aging. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Physiological effect --- Age Studies; Aging Studies; Gender Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies; Narrative Theory; Body and Embodiment; Ageism; Health; Decay; Culture; Literature; Body; General Literature Studies --- Ageism. --- Aging Studies. --- Body and Embodiment. --- Body. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Decay. --- Gender Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- Health. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Narrative Theory.
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