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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Casado-Gual, Núria[Herausgeber]
• Domínguez-Rué, Emma[Herausgeber]
• Oró-Piqueras, Maricel[Herausgeber]

Titel

Re-discovering Age(ing) : Narratives of Mentorship

Ist Teil von

• Aging Studies : 16

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Frontmatter 1 Content 7 Introduction 9 Getting Old, Dreaming Youth: Notes about Fanny Burney 21 I may be retired-however, I am still a very busy man 29 Rumi, Sufi Spirituality and the Teacher- Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love 47 Saviors and Survivors 69 Literary Mentors for Life 87 The Many Functions of Furniture 105 Experience as Mentor in Helping to Deal with Old Age 119 "One must take it as it comes" 125 Toledo 147 Of Trees and Fire 155 Embodied Legacies of Mentoring and Role Models 157 Mentorship as a Lifelong Experience 158 Reflections on Academic Generations and the Possibilities of Mentorship 160 All that Remains 161 On Listening to the 'Music for two Pianos' 162 Maria And Brian- Our Parental Figures in the World of Academia 165 Connecting People through Brian and Maria-No Limits 166 To Feel Part of a Dream 167 Let's have tea in "La Torre": Mentoring through Affection 169 Your Child of Sorts-A Tribute to Maria & Brian 171 Notes on Editors 173 Notes on Contributors 174
• Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume explore wisdom in old age through a series of narratives of mentorship which, either from a critical or a personal perspective, undermine ageist views of later life.
• Issued also in print.
• Núria Casado-Gual, born in 1975, teaches English theatre and literature at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. As a member of the Department of English and Linguistics and as project leader of the research group Dedal-Lit, she leads two research projects on ageing, creativity, and the quality of life. Besides her research in literary gerontology, she develops pedagogical and creative projects within the field of theatre studies, which she also explores as a playwright and actress.
• Emma Domínguez-Rué (PhD), born in 1976, teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. She has worked not only on ageing studies but also within the American studies and on narratives of disease, contemporary detective fiction, and Victorian and Gothic fiction from a feminist perspective.
• Maricel Oró-Piqueras, born in 1977, is a member of the research group Dedal-Lit and teaches literature, culture, and English language at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. Her research focuses on British contemporary writers such as Julian Barnes, Deborah Moggach and Kazuo Ishiguro. She has published articles in journals such as the "Journal of Aging Studies" and the "Journal of English Studies".
• In English.