Contents

Acknowledgements iv

Preface, by Tom Kirkwood vii

Introduction xi

Héctor Blanco Uría

The Topic of Ageing in Philip Larkin’s Poetry 3

Tatjana Djurik Kuzmanovic

Old Age in Serbia: Transition for All Ages 13

Carles Feixa Pàmpols

The Hourglass of Time: Life Cycle in the Digital Era 25

Edurne Garrido Anes

“‘Aware too late,’ said Beauty as she passed.” The Expiry Date to be Liked and to Love: Some Medieval Views on Old Age and Sexuality 47

Pere Gifra Adroher

Ripeness is Gall: Images of Ageing in the Theatre of Edward Bond 59

Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo

Problem Columns and the Discourse of Masculine Ageing Anxieties in Britain 69

Rached Khalifa

Willie’s “Monkey Gland” or the Bio-Aesthetics of Ageing in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats 81

John Kinsella

Grapholagia Poetica: Ageing as Confrontation with or Avoidance of Death 99

Cynthia Port

“None of it adds up”: Economies of Aging in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbor 115

David Rampton

Love’s Knowledge? Growing Old Disgracefully in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain 127

Félix Rodríguez Rodríguez

The “Aging Fallacy”: Older Scholars and Cultural Belatedness 139

Jeffrey Skoblow

Summer Days Are Gone: Age and the Poetics of (Rock ’n’ Roll) Song 147

Lourdes Torrelles Pont

Failure to Listen to the Voice of the Ancestors: Ben Okri’s Perception of Nigeria as an Abiku Country 155

Tova Yedidia and Noga Levine-Keini

Making Use of a Family Collage as a Means for Processing Traumatic Experiences in Working with Holocaust Survivors 165

Notes on contributors177