Description
1. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how engaging with dementia through its myriad literary representations can help to deepen and humanize attitudes to people living with the condition.
2. Drawing on literary studies, cultural studies, education, clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing and gerontology, this book is a fascinating contribution to the emerging area of the medical and health humanities.
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
