Dementia is an urgent global concern. Creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time. This volume explores how engaging with dementia through its myriad literary representations can help to deepen and humanize attitudes to people living with the condition.
Dementia is an urgent global concern. Creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time. This volume explores how engaging with dementia through its myriad literary representations can help to deepen and humanize attitudes to people living with the condition.
Tess Maginess is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She is co-director of an extensive Open Learning, continuing education programme which attracts some 6,000 students each year, many of them older people.
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1. Introduction: Setting the Context within Medical Humanities, Gerontology and Dementia Research Tess Maginess 2. Using the Arts to Promote Healing and Happiness Maeve Rea 3. Personal Identity and Personhood: Literary Texts and Perceptions of Dementia Femi and Jan Oyebode 4. Entering a New Landscape: Dementia as the Ultimate Human Condition Ragna Aadlandsvik 5. Dementia and Symbiosis in Beckett's Waiting for Godot Briege Casey 6. Narrative Dementia and Silence Nora Simonhjell 7. Language Breakdown and the Construction of Meaning: Linguistic Frameworks for Dementia in Literature Joan Rahilly 8. Missing Pieces: Trauma, Dementia and the Ethics of Reading in Elizabeth is Missing Lucy Burke 9. More Sinned Against than Sinning: Out of Mind and Minding in King Lear Tess Maginess 10. Indian Representations of Dementia in Literature Pramod Nayar 11. PeopleGLAD: Co-constructing a Narrative Approach to Dementia Care Maria Castro and Tessa Hughes 12. Conclusions Tess Maginess
1. Introduction: Setting the Context within Medical Humanities, Gerontology and Dementia Research Tess Maginess 2. Using the Arts to Promote Healing and Happiness Maeve Rea 3. Personal Identity and Personhood: Literary Texts and Perceptions of Dementia Femi and Jan Oyebode 4. Entering a New Landscape: Dementia as the Ultimate Human Condition Ragna Aadlandsvik 5. Dementia and Symbiosis in Beckett's Waiting for Godot Briege Casey 6. Narrative Dementia and Silence Nora Simonhjell 7. Language Breakdown and the Construction of Meaning: Linguistic Frameworks for Dementia in Literature Joan Rahilly 8. Missing Pieces: Trauma, Dementia and the Ethics of Reading in Elizabeth is Missing Lucy Burke 9. More Sinned Against than Sinning: Out of Mind and Minding in King Lear Tess Maginess 10. Indian Representations of Dementia in Literature Pramod Nayar 11. PeopleGLAD: Co-constructing a Narrative Approach to Dementia Care Maria Castro and Tessa Hughes 12. Conclusions Tess Maginess
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