Re-discovering Age(ing) : : Narratives of Mentorship /

Re-discovering Age(ing) : : Narratives of Mentorship / / ed. by Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Emma Domínguez-Rué, Núria Casado-Gual.

Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's "Odyssey", gave name to the figure of the 'wise teacher', fictional representations of mentoring have permeated different classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life...

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MitwirkendeR:
Astier, Cristina,
Ballyn, Susan,
Casado Gual, Núria,
Casado-Gual, Núria,
Cuadrado-Fernández, Antoni,
Dolan, Josephine,
Domínguez-Rué, Emma,
Errasti, Ander,
Falcus, Sarah,
Farré Vidal, Carme,
Gray, Billy,
Kinsella, John,
Laceulle, Hanne,
Maierhofer, Roberta,
Mina, Núria,
Miquel-Baldellou, Marta,
Morganroth Gullette, Margaret,
Oró-Piqueras, Maricel,
Skoblow, Jeffrey,
Stončikaitė, Ieva,
Suárez-Lafuente, Maria Socorro,
Swinnen, Aagje,
Urdaneta, Elena,
HerausgeberIn:
Casado-Gual, Núria,
Domínguez-Rué, Emma,
Oró-Piqueras, Maricel,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Aging Studies ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Introduction
  • Rediscovering ageing through narratives of Mentorship
  • Getting Old, Dreaming Youth: Notes about Fanny Burney
  • I may be retired-however, I am still a very busy man
  • Rumi, Sufi Spirituality and the Teacher- Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love
  • Saviors and Survivors
  • Literary Mentors for Life
  • The Many Functions of Furniture
  • Experience as Mentor in Helping to Deal with Old Age
  • "One must take it as it comes"
  • Toledo
  • Lessons Learnt: CollAge for Maria and Brian
  • Of Trees and Fire
  • Embodied Legacies of Mentoring and Role Models
  • Mentorship as a Lifelong Experience
  • Reflections on Academic Generations and the Possibilities of Mentorship
  • All that Remains
  • On Listening to the 'Music for two Pianos'
  • Maria And Brian- Our Parental Figures in the World of Academia
  • Connecting People through Brian and Maria-No Limits
  • To Feel Part of a Dream
  • Let's have tea in "La Torre": Mentoring through Affection
  • Your Child of Sorts-A Tribute to Maria & Brian
  • Notes
  • Notes on Editors
  • Notes on Contributors

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