@article{Gaidash_2019, title={LITERARY GERONTOLOGY: DEFINITION, HISTORY, CONCEPTS}, url={https://litp.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/458}, DOI={10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133}, abstractNote={<p>The goal of the article is to provide an extended definition and in-depth description of literary gerontology<br />as a branch of humanities. Contemporary world witnesses how the number of elderly people increases<br />that makes the research relevant. Literary gerontology forms in the mid-1970s in the framework of age<br />studies. Scholars of literary gerontology examine the gerontological markers in fictional texts. Unlike<br />sociologists or medical gerontologists who regard biological aging as involution of the body/brain and<br />degradation of the individual, the literary scholars consider fictional representations of late adulthood<br />in a much more contrastive and tragic focus: elderly people are forced to deal with numerous negative<br />stereotypes of old age in a youth-oriented culture. Therefore the key concept of literary gerontology<br />studies is ageism which etymology is traced in the lexical unit of “age”. Its initial meaning “lifetime;<br />maturity; vital force” is lost over time, acquiring the connotation of “decline” (feebleness; senility). One<br />of the problems of literary gerontology studies is the widespread use of ageist euphemisms in fiction.<br />The methods used in the paper are mixed: historical data processing, analyses of interdisciplinary<br />resources (literary gerontology, social gerontology, age studies). The results can be practical for classes<br />of theory of literature and social gerontology. The findings of the paper inform of the origin of literary<br />gerontolog</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133">https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133</a></p>}, number={13}, journal={Літературний процес: методологія, імена, тенденції}, author={Gaidash, Anna}, year={2019}, month={Чер} }