A Poetic Language of Ageing

Olga V. Lehmann, Oddgeir Synnes, Olga V. Lehmann

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
15 June 2023

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Age groups: the elderly; Social & cultural anthropology; Maturation & ageing

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as ‘how can we understand ageing and later life?’ and ‘how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?’ As poetic language illuminates, transfigures and enchants our being in the world, it also offers insights into the existential questions that are amplified as we age, including the vulnerabilities and losses that humble us and connect us.

This volume suggests a path towards the poetics of ageing by means of presenting analyses of published poetry on ageing ranging from William Shakespeare to George Oppen; the use of reading and writing poetry among lay people in old age, including persons living with dementia; and the poetic nuances that emerge from other literary practices and contexts in relation to ageing –

counting personal poetic reflections from many of the contributing authors.

Edited by: Olga V. Lehmann, Oddgeir Synnes, Olga V. Lehmann
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350256804
ISBN 10: 1350256803
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. Olga V. Lehmann, PhD, is a researcher, lecturer, and mental health activist. She is an associate professor in Psychology at the University of Stavanger 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).

Reviews for A Poetic Language of Ageing

While many of the essays in the collection do involve a degree of the sociological approach that has characterised literary gerontology up until this point, the theorisation of the formal aspects of poetry and how this manifests in varying contexts of ageing remains central. This is the collection’s greatest strength—it does not present the ageing individual or the ageing poetic voice as an object of study. Instead, it positions the unique intricacies of the experience of ageing as a lens that may present new ways of thinking about the formal aspects of poetry as a genre, making this a text that has value far beyond what it presents to the growth of literary gerontology. * Journal of Literary Studies *