Literature and Aging: An AnthologyMartin Kohn, Carol C. Donley, Delese Wear Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with the family, failing health, the recognition of personal mortality, prejudice against the elderly, and grief over the losses of loved ones and places. This collection of more than 60 short stories, poems, and plays addresses these issues primarily through the works of modern American writers, including Bernard Malamud, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Edward Albee, Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. The selections represent the experience of aging from the perspective of persons of diverse color, ethnicity, and background, and are complemented by illustrator Elizabeth Layton's wry and perceptive prints. |
Contents
AGING AND THE COMMUNITY | 4 |
Next | 7 |
The Workhouse Ward | 20 |
Mr Floods Party | 35 |
Miss Rosie | 43 |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | 74 |
AGING AND LOVE | 83 |
Now Before the End I Think | 89 |
The goth Year | 257 |
Appropriate Affect | 271 |
Introduction | 295 |
The Very | 308 |
To Hell with Dying | 315 |
Toenails | 321 |
A Visit of Charity | 331 |
Idiots First | 347 |
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References to this book
Teaching about Aging: Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Perspectives Dena Shenk,Jay Sokolovsky No preview available - 1999 |