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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 261–285.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Aagje Swinnen Abstract Scholars in literary aging studies typically engage in oppositional readings that reveal the often-hidden age ideologies of texts while addressing points of exit from these ideologies. This form of research is ethical and political in that it aims to clarify cultural meanings...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... This article reads the sterility dystopia—a subgenre of science fiction where a global inability to have children results in aging populations and societal collapse—as registering the anxiety that arises at the intersection of age and the environment. Taking The Children of Men as a case study, I suggest...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Intergenerational Dialogues: How Children's Literature Studies and Age Studies Can Supplement Each Other .” Children's Literature Association Quarterly 40 , no. 2 : 126 – 40 . Kavenna Joanna . 2016 . Review of Autumn , by Ali Smith . Guardian , October 12 . https://www.theguardian.com/books...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 111–129.
Published: 01 June 2023
... a unique and somewhat ambivalent case study for examining how the privileging of difficulty and discordance are met and informed by the lived realities of aging and longevity. Paying attention to the publication history of each poem, this article first examines Barnes's redrafting process for “Rite...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 45–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... violence and promote poetry as a refuge from it, yet their poetry, paradoxically, affirms guns’ literary power. The five poets selected for this study represent different styles emitting from diverse histories, ages, and literary backgrounds. Their poems likewise branch across a range of contexts...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Els Andringa The aim of this study is to investigate how reading experiences intertwine fiction and life and how such experiences change over time. Twelve reading autobiographies of young, motivated readers (age range twenty-two to thirty-two; six men, six women) were analyzed using qualitative...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 377–394.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Nancy Easterlin In what ways does literary study contribute to human knowledge, understanding, and flourishing? This introductory essay emphasizes the importance of an age-old question in the face of the devaluation of the humanities. Cognitive literary studies are well situated to address...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 373–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
... took him at once to the heart of a range of psychosocial issues that are today studied under the cognitive scientific rubric of “theory of mind,” including the developmental interrelations of, and motivations for, social imitation, language acquisition, and mental representation. Taking first...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 February 2018
... omniscience of the nineteenth might reflect an age of increasing state control. The article argues that only our impressionistic use of mostly canonical examples permits such sweeping statements and that the very notion of the period (never mind episteme or paradigm) is undermined by a quantitative...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 313–329.
Published: 01 June 2010
... literary studies have recently argued that narrative serves an adaptive function, the approach outlined here foregrounds the opportunity to have experiences without the restraints of the everyday world as a crucial factor in the prominence of narrative across ages and cultures. Porter Institute...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 295–297.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 Elizabeth Barry is professor of modern literature in the Department of English at the University of Warwick, UK. She works in the fields of modern literary studies, medical humanities and—predominantly—literary age studies...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 291–294.
Published: 01 June 2023
...) refers to as “able-bodied hegemony.” Gallop's theorizing is also deeply informed by aging studies scholar Margaret Morganroth Gullette's ( 1997 ) concept of “decline theory,” which examines how the life course is structured temporally as an arc, with middle and late life defined by decline, deterioration...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of care in our societies. The field of age studies was shaped by scholarship such as Margaret Gullette's Aged by Culture ( 2004 ), Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old ( 2003 ), and Thomas Cole's The Journey of Life ( 1992 ). These monographs challenged the biological essentialism...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 63–87.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and interact with other formal features. Everyman specifically and Roth's oeuvre more generally may not be everyone's cup of tea. 1 I want to suggest, however, that Everyman is an excellent test case to think more broadly about the role of age stereotypes in literary texts and in age studies. What...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 181–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... is to make poetry that is as “universal” as possible. Scholars within the field of Aging Studies have critiqued so-called fantasies of immortality, which are cultivated in real life by such scientists as Aubrey de Grey, who claims that we will soon be able to defeat aging. 5 Other critics accuse...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 287–290.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age makes a distinct and valuable contribution to studies of Edith Wharton through its attention to the theme of age as it evolves in her work. The book does more, too. Dawson expertly places Wharton's fiction in the broader cultural context of the early twentieth...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
... displaced “old age” and led to a continuation of work in various forms long into later life (legislation delaying the pension age for women in the UK, for example). 5. For more on how Lee Edelman's No Future is used in age studies, see Port 2012 and Falcus 2020 . 6. Amira Paz, Israel...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Disease .” Journal of Aging Studies 17 : 151 – 70 . Kontos Pia C . 2005 . “ Embodied Selfhood in Alzheimer's Disease: Rethinking Person-Centred Care .” Dementia 4 , no. 4 : 553 – 70 . Koutsourakis Angelos . 2019 . “ Modernist Belatedness in Contemporary Slow Cinema...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Japanese Studies 21 , no. 2 : 365 – 404 . Golley Gregory . 2008 . When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Gullette Margaret Morganroth . 2003 . “ From Life Storytelling to Age...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... Blumenberg, Hans. (1966) 1984.Der Prozeß der theoretischen Neugierde. Rev. ed. of Die Legitimita¨t der Neuzeit, 3. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. Blumenberg, Hans. (1966) 1988. Die Legitimita¨t der Neuzeit: Erneuerte Ausgabe. Frankfurt: Suhr- kamp. Blumenberg, Hans. 1983. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age: Studies...