Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367341497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Tess Maginess

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.