Inquiries concerning the nature of ‘biographical aging’ within the emerging field of ‘narrative gerontology’ have pointed to the need for a detailed consideration of the parallels between lived texts and literary ones. This article draws on a number of such parallels in order to outline what might be called apoeticsof aging. The central proposal is organized around 3 key concepts: narrative imagination, narrative identity, and narrative environment. The article concludes by speculating on some of the applications of the proposal in relation to growing old, as opposed to merely getting old. (Aging, Narrative, Gerontology, Poetics, Imagination)
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Angus, Jocelyn & Sally Bowen
2011. Quiet please, there's a lady on stage:. Journal of Aging Studies 25:2 ► pp. 110 ff.
Blix, Bodil Hansen, Torunn Hamran & Hans Ketil Normann
2013. Struggles of being and becoming: A dialogical narrative analysis of the life stories of Sami elderly. Journal of Aging Studies 27:3 ► pp. 264 ff.
Blix, Bodil Hansen, Torunn Hamran & Hans Ketil Normann
2015. Roads not taken: A narrative positioning analysis of older adults' stories about missed opportunities. Journal of Aging Studies 35 ► pp. 169 ff.
Bourgeois-Guérin, Valérie
2010. La souffrance en lien avec les écueils de la communication chez les femmes âgées atteintes de cancer incurable. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 29:4 ► pp. 529 ff.
Crossley, Alice
2023. The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki's Diary of a Mad Old Man
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Divita, David
2014. Multilingualism and later life: A sociolinguistic perspective on age and aging. Journal of Aging Studies 30 ► pp. 94 ff.
Fan, KuangYi & PeiFen Wu
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Gilleard, Chris
2018. Suffering old age? An exploration of May Sarton’s later life in writing. Educational Gerontology 44:7 ► pp. 416 ff.
Harrington, C. Lee & Denise Brothers
2010. A life course built for two: Acting, aging, and soap operas. Journal of Aging Studies 24:1 ► pp. 20 ff.
Hydén, Lars-Christer
2021. Gerontopsychology: Dementia and Identity. In The Cambridge Handbook of Identity, ► pp. 487 ff.
Kriebernegg, Ulla
2021. Zur Hinführung: Niemals alt? Super sad! Literatur- und kulturgerontologische Perspektiven auf kulturelle Repräsentationen des Alters. In Kulturgerontologie [Altern & Gesellschaft, ], ► pp. 347 ff.
Lee Harrington, C. & Denise D. Bielby
2010. A life course perspective on fandom. International Journal of Cultural Studies 13:5 ► pp. 429 ff.
Ludwig, Amrhein & Gertrud M Backes
2008. Alter(n) und Identitätsentwicklung: Formen des Umgangs mit dem eigenen Älterwerden. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 41:5 ► pp. 382 ff.
Mager, Barbara
2019. Storytelling contributes to resilience in older adults. Activities, Adaptation & Aging 43:1 ► pp. 23 ff.
McKim, A. Elizabeth & William L. Randall
2007. From Psychology to Poetics: Aging as a Literary Process. Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts 1:3-4 ► pp. 147 ff.
Preser, Ruth
2018. The lesbian complaint: On kinship, genre and being public. European Journal of Cultural Studies 21:2 ► pp. 259 ff.
Randall, William L.
2007. Narrative and Chaos Acknowledging the Novelty of Lives-in-Time. Interchange 38:4 ► pp. 367 ff.
Randall, William L.
2008. Getting my stories straight: A narrativist in quest of congruence. Journal of Aging Studies 22:2 ► pp. 169 ff.
Randall, William L.
2012. Positive Aging Through Reading Our Lives. Psychological Studies 57:2 ► pp. 172 ff.
Spaulding, Stacy
2016. The poetics of goodbye: Change and nostalgia in goodbye narratives penned by ex-Baltimore Sunemployees. Journalism 17:2 ► pp. 208 ff.
Webster-Wright, Ann
2019. Grace and Grit: The Politics, Poetics and Performance of Ageing as a Woman. Life Writing 16:1 ► pp. 97 ff.
Westerhof, Gerben J.
2022. A Narrative Approach to Subjective Views of Aging: Building New Narratives of Aging on the Diverse Lived Experience of Growing Old. In Subjective Views of Aging [International Perspectives on Aging, 33], ► pp. 329 ff.
Yamasaki, Jill
2009. Though Much Is Taken, Much Abides: The Storied World of Aging in a Fictionalized Retirement Home. Health Communication 24:7 ► pp. 588 ff.
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2021. Current Domains. In The Cambridge Handbook of Identity, ► pp. 461 ff.
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