Literature and Aging An Anthology

Name: Literature and Aging An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780873384667

ISBN-10: 0873384660

ISBN-13: 9780873384667

Edition: 1992

Authors: Martin Kï¿½hn, Carol Donley, Delese Wear, Elizabeth Layton

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Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with the family, failing health, the recognition of personal mortality, prejudice against the elderly, and grief over the losses of loved ones and places. This collection of more than 60 short stories, poems, and plays addresses these issues primarily through the works of modern American writers, including Bernard Malamud, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Edward Albee, Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. The selections…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface


Editors' Statements



Aging and Identity


Introduction


Monet Refuses the Operation



Next Day



A Worn Path



A Clean, Well-Lighted Place



The Workhouse Ward



The Space Crone



Mr. Flood's Party



An Old Man's Winter Night



Provide, Provide



A Woman Alone



Virginia Portrait



Miss Rosie



A Lady



On A Winter Night



How to be Old



Old



Fortitude



The Jilting of Granny Weatherall




Aging and Love


Introduction


The Pleasures of Old Age



Medicine



Now, Before the End, I Think



The Bean Eaters



Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop



from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower



We Are Nighttime Travelers



Grandma's Got a Wig



In Retirement



Epstein



The Linden Tree



Fallback




Aging and the Family


Introduction


Tell Me A Riddle



Porte-Cochere



Everything That Rises Must Converge



The Jewbird



Maggie of the Green Bottles



from The Joy Luck Club



Grandfather in the Old Men's Home



My Father-in-Law's Contract



Stroke



Grandmother and Grandson



A Conversation with My Father



The Sandbox



The 90th Year



The Stroke



Strokes



Grandmother's Stroke



Sequel



Appropriate Affect



Spelling




Aging and the Community


Introduction


from Emperor of the Air



The Very Old



Near the Old People's Home



He Makes a House Call



Ancient Gentility



To Hell with Dying



Toenails



Misery



A Visit of Charity



Dillinger in Hollywood



Idiots First



What You Hear From 'Em?



Old Doc Rivers



Leaving the Yellow House



The Black and White



About the Authors


Permissions Acknowledgments


Index