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Author:   Tess Maginess (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9780367341497

ISBN 10:   0367341492
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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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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