Aging studies and ecocriticism interdisciplinary encounters / edited by Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] |
| Description | vii, 234 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. |
| Other author/creator | Hoydis, Julia. |
| Other author/creator | Kainradl, Anna-Christina, 1981- |
| Other author/creator | Kriebernegg, Ulla. |
| Series | Ecocritical theory and practice |
| Contents | Time, relationality, and fears of ending : encounters between aging studies and ecocriticism / Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg -- "A world in flux" : temporality, aging, and environmental change in V.S. Naipaul's late work / Silvia Gerlsbeck -- Footprints in the jungle : creating a legacy in the rainforest / Christian Lenz -- "Zoological outcasts" and the aging other in Jean Rhys's late short stories / Jade E. French -- Embodying age(ing) in the non-human world in Lorna Crozier's poetry / Núria Mina-Riera -- Beyond reproductive futurism : Harold and Maude's ecological aesthetics / Simon Dickel -- Time travel, age/ing and ecology in the German Netflix series Dark (2017-2020) / Tina-Karen Pusse and Michaela Schrage-Früh -- Imagining longevity and sustainability in Walter Besant's The inner house and William Morris' News from nowhere / Adrian Tait -- Literature and the "cultural scripting" of aging and dying / Stephen Hahn -- Caring (for) futures : intergenerational justice in contemporary drama / Julia Hoydis -- Old(er) women and the apocalypse : three dramatic representations / Julia Henderson and Katrina Dunn -- Learning to live well within limits : exploring the existential lessons of climate change and an aging population / Albert Banerjee -- Emergent cosmic return : the field of possibilities for aging in a proposed new geological epoch / Peter J. Whitehouse. |
| Abstract | "This collection presents the first substantial encounter between aging studies and ecocriticism. By putting both fields into conversation, it addresses competing ideologies of efficiency, exploitation, and endurance versus those of sustenance, care, and survival"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023020217 |
| ISBN | 9781666914740 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |