Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-006
D. Badin
{"title":"“Making Sense or No Sense of Existence”: The ‘Plot’ of Thomas Kinsella’s Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio’s De senectute","authors":"D. Badin","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114880452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-005
Pier Paolo Piciucco
{"title":"The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending","authors":"Pier Paolo Piciucco","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129865125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-002
Licia Canton
{"title":"Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land","authors":"Licia Canton","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126485633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-004
Lucia Folena
{"title":"Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe","authors":"Lucia Folena","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-004","url":null,"abstract":"In the initial lines of “Sailing to Byzantium” (Ll. 1-10) William Butler Yeats opposes youth – as a time of existential plenitude and full immersion in the joys of carnality and sense – to the irresistible physical decay brought about by the process of growing old. An awareness of this spoliation, however, does not necessarily entail only loss and despair. For the gradual ebbing away of corporal faculties leaves increasing ground for the intellectual and spiritual progresses of the “soul” (L. 11), to the point where it becomes possible to imagine a final metamorphosis of the passionate and transient living body into a detached and eternal artistic masterpiece graced with an absolute perfection of form. Thus, paradoxically, ageing may turn into an aesthetic experience. And there are cases in which, instead of positing the antithetical nature of the two terms involved – ‘life’ and ‘art’ – in its definitively lifting the individual him/herself out of the pathway of the former up to the sanctuary of the latter, such an experience results in reducing or denying the opposition by directly transfiguring one of the terms into the other: converting the whole existential itinerary that has produced the now-aged individual into an aesthetically and intellectually gratifying object. Any creative product invested with an aesthetic function – as well as art in general, including literature – may be regarded as an attempt to impose","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124515383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-003
P. Bertinetti
{"title":"Shakespeare’s Grandiose Old Men","authors":"P. Bertinetti","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-003","url":null,"abstract":"In the same scene, the melancholic Jacques had just reported the profound declaration of Touchstone, one of Shakespeare’s wise fools: “And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.” (Act II, Scene vii, 63-64, p. 264) Undoubtedly, there are several equally gloomy and disconsolate quotes about old age in other Shakespeare’s plays; and in his sonnets he dedicates numerous verses to the anguish of the passing of time, the impassive time that carves deep marks of ruination on man’s body and face. Frequently, time is described as the never resting","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116004487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imagining AgeingPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839444269-009
B. Fondo
{"title":"Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello","authors":"B. Fondo","doi":"10.14361/9783839444269-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444269-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328053,"journal":{"name":"Imagining Ageing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115379623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}