Poetic Language of Ageing, A (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350256803 ISBN 13: 9781350256804

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

This book is the first of its kind to explore in depth how poetry and poetic language might offer nuanced and novel understandings and perspectives of ageing and later life.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Olga V. Lehmann, PhD, is a researcher, lecturer, and mental health activist. She is Associate Professor in psychology, Department of Social Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway, and she has a private clinical practice. Her main areas of interest involve feelings and emotions, silence, communication, humanistic-existential psychology, grief therapeutic writing, grief and bereavement, poetic instants, and qualitative methods. She has published, among others, Poetry and Imagined Worlds (2017) and Deep Experiencing: Dialogues Within the Self (2017).

Oddgeir Synnes is Professor of Health Humanities at the Centre for Diaconia and Professional Practice, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway. Synnes has a master's degree in Nordic literature and a PhD in illness narratives and works with applying perspectives from the humanities to healthcare, both through practical projects and in research. His key areas of interest include cultural and narrative gerontology, creative writing (e.g., in cancer care, palliative care, and dementia care), literary representations of illness, and narrative inquiry. His most recent book is Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life (2020), co-edited with Bernike Pasveer and Ingunn Moser.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1350256803
• ISBN 13: 9781350256804
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
• Herausgeber: Lehmann Olga V.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland