The Ages of Life : : Living and Aging in Conflict? / / ed. by Roberta Maierhofer, Ulla Kriebernegg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bădulescu, Dana,; Chupin, Helen,; Domínguez-Rué, Emma,; Formosa, Marvin,; Grebe, Heinrich,; Klein, Eva,; Kriebernegg, Ulla,; Küpper, Thomas,; Lövgren, Karin,; Maierhofer, Roberta,; Melzer-Azodanloo, Nora,; Miquel-Baldellou, Marta,; Otto, Welf-Gerrit,; Pirker, Jürgen,; Skenazi, Cynthia,; Stone, Sharon-Dale,; Wangler, Julian,; Zilles, Katharina,; Zimmermann, Harm-Peer,
• HerausgeberIn: Kriebernegg, Ulla,; Maierhofer, Roberta,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Aging Studies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Inhalt --; The Ages of Life --; Methods and Approaches --; Positive Aging in an Age of Neo-liberalism --; Celebrating or Denying Age? --; Age-Related Disability --; Aged by Law --; Representations of Ages of Life in Media and Art --; “The Journey into the Land of Forgetfulness” --; Representation of Old Age in Media --; Age Images in Advertising --; Of Mimicry and Age --; Representation of Ages of Life in Literature --; The Irony of the Ages of Life --; Past the Mirror of Victorian Aging and Beyond --; Beyond Dis-Ease --; Growing Old and Searching for Identity in Anne Tyler’s Noah’s Compass (2009) and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) --; Man, Interrupted --; Too Old To Rock? --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839422120; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370713; 9783110401219
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839422120?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Roberta Maierhofer, Ulla Kriebernegg.

The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research.The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.