Dorian Graying

Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-89503-169-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Society and Aging Series

In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we enter Dorian, the Opera, a re-imagining of his quest in the postmodern world of interactive computers. Finally, we observe Dorian's obsession and plight in our own graying society. This insightful analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young" also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, philosophers, media mavens, and policy-makers.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kastenbaum, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

You Are Young

PART I Is Youth The Only Thing Worth Having? Tithon and On and On and On.parables of immortal aging Dorian in His Own Times

PART II Intermezzo Dorian, the Opera

PART III Dorian in Our Times

PART IV Epilogue: You Are Old References Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Kastenbaum (Author)