1st Edition
Dementia and Literature Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1. Entering a new landscape: Dementia in literature [Ragna Aadlandsvik]
2. Dementia and symbiosis in Waiting for Godot [Briege Casey]
3.‘Poor, bare fork’d animal’: The representation of dementia in King Lear [Tess Maginess and Hannah Zeilig]
4. Representations of dementia in Arabic literature [Faten Hussein]
5. Missing pieces: trauma, dementia and the ethics of reading in Elizabeth is missing [Lucy Burke]
6. Personal identity and personhood: The role of fiction and biographical accounts in dementia [Femi Oyebode and Jan Oyebode]
7. Language breakdown and the construction of meaning: Linguistic frameworks for readings of dementia in literature [Joan Rahilly]
8. Beyond shadow and play: Different representations of dementia in contemporary Scandinavian literature [Nora Simonhjell]
9. Dementia in recent Indian fiction in English [Pramod K. Nayar]
10. Arts and Healing: Learning from dementia literature [Maeve Rea]
Biography
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.
