edited by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker.
Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
1999.
1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246), filmography and index.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE AGING MALE IN LITERATURE; PART II: THE AGING FEMALE IN LITERATURE; PART III: AGING IN THE COMMUNITY; PART IV: AGING IN THE FINE AND POPULAR ARTS; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors.
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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-m.
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