Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize "boundary texts" in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.
| ISBN: | 9781666914740 |
| Publication date: | 15th August 2023 |
| Author: | Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, AnnaChristina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 242 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Age groups: the elderly Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Nature and the natural world: general interest |
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize "boundary texts" in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism features in the following genres: Age groups: the elderly, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Nature and the natural world: general interest
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism is available in Hardback
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism was written by Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, AnnaChristina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg and published by Lexington Books
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism has 242 pages
Yes it is part of Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
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