Description
| Product ID: | 9781032146874 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Irish Literature |
| Title: | Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Michaela Schrage-Fruh, Tony Tracy |
| Page Count: | 252 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, European history, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: men and boys, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, European history, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: men |
| Description: | This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-14 |
