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.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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