{"product_id":"aging-studies-and-ecocriticism-interdisciplinary-encounters-9781666914740","title":"Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg: Time, Relationality, and Fears of Ending: Encounters between Aging Studies and Ecocriticism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I “Aging Bodies and Environments” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Silvia Gerlsbeck: “A World in Flux”: Temporality, Aging, and Environmental Change in V.S. Naipaul’s Late Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Christian Lenz: Footprints in the Jungle: Creating a Legacy in the Rainforest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Jade E. French: “Zoological Outcasts” and the Aging Other in Jean Rhys’s Late Short Stories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Núria Mina-Riera: Embodying Age(ing) in the Non-Human World in Lorna Crozier’s Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Simon Dickel: Beyond Reproductive Futurism: Harold and Maude’s Ecological Aesthetics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Tina-Karen Pusse and Michaela Schrage-Früh: Time Travel, Age\/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark (2017-2020) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II “Growing Old Amid Environmental Crises” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Adrian Tait: Imagining Longevity and Sustainability in Walter Besant’s The Inner House and William Morris’ News from Nowhere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Stephen Hahn: Literature and the “Cultural Scripting” of Aging and Dying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Julia Hoydis: Caring (for) Futures: Intergenerational Justice in Contemporary Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Julia Henderson and Katrina Dunn: Old(er) Women and the Apocalypse: Three Dramatic Representations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Albert Banerjee: Learning to Live Well within Limits: Exploring the Existential Lessons of Climate Change and an Aging Population \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III Afterword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Peter J. Whitehouse: Emergent Cosmic Return: The Field of Possibilities for Aging in a Proposed New Geological Epoch \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042011840855,"sku":"9781666914740","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666914740.jpg?v=1750952616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aging-studies-and-ecocriticism-interdisciplinary-encounters-9781666914740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}