Aging and Identity
Subtitle: A Humanities Perspective
Contributors: Sara Munson Deats (Editor); Lagretta Tallent Lenker (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: April 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780275964795
Subjects: Elderly; Film theory & criticism; Literary studies: general; Theory of art; Social Gerontology; Social Science; Sociology; Aging - General; General; Gerontology; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Aging in literature; Old age in literature; Older people in art; Older people in mass media; Older people in popular cultur; Older people in popular culture
First sentence: Shakespeares King Lear and Prospero dramatize many of the problems confronting almost everyone fortunate enough to survive to "a ripe old age": the problem of allowing their children the freedom to live their own lives, the problem of coping with retirement, and the problem of accepting change and finding it a challenge and an opportunity rather than a threat.