Förderer: KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection
Aging and Self-Realization
Cultural Narratives about Later Life
- Laceulle, Hanne
A thorough philosophical critique of dominant cultural views about later life, that aims to offer outlines for more inspiring perspectives on aging.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. November 2018
Care Home Stories
Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
- Chivers, Sally
- Kriebernegg, Ulla
- (eds.)
Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Writing Emotions
Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature
- Jandl, Ingeborg
- Knaller, Susanne
- Schönfellner, Sabine
- Tockner, Gudrun
- (eds.)
The collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components. Readers interested in the topic will be presented with a concept of aesthetic emotions as both formative within the writing and the reading process.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
- Helff, Sissy
- Michels, Stefanie
- (eds.)
This compilation connects photography to global practices in historic perspective. Colonial and postcolonial photography is presented as an entangled and contested site.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018