Heike Hartung has published widely in interdisciplinary ageing studies. Recent publications include Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature and Embodied Narration. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies and co-editor of the Transcript Aging Studies publication series. Rüdiger Kunow is a retired Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies program at Potsdam University, Germany. He is a founding member of ENAS, the European Network in Aging Studies, and currently involved in the MASCAGE project. Matthew Sweney is an editor and translator, lecturer at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and researcher in the MASCAGE project “Ageing Masculinities” at the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. He earned his PhD in English and American Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

This edited book comprises some outstanding contributions whose contents can be effectively implemented in academic seminars of Medical Humanities. … The book has the merit of extending our understanding of what the spectrum of dementia is, how it can be approached and communicated inside and outside of academia. What is more, it is an appeal for everyone to recognize people with dementia and meet them on their own terms.

• Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia NarrativesEds. Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow and Matthew SweneyCONTENTS00 Acknowledgments 01 Heike Hartung and Rüdiger Kunow Introduction: Alzheimer’s Disease as a Gendered Affliction – Masculinities between Dementia Ventriloquism and Symptomatic ReadingsSection I: Conceptualizing Masculinities, Dementia Care and Embodiment02 Martina ZimmermannChapter 1: From a “Care-Free” Distance? Adult Sons about Their Parents with Dementia: A Cross-Cultural Enquiry03 Annette Leibing and Cintia EngelChapter 2: Masculinities in Brazil: Identity Tinkering and Dementia Care04 Melinda Niehus-KettlerChapter 3: Becoming One of the Others: Embodying and Eliminating Fabricated NaturesSection II: The Poetics of Dementia and Masculinity: Between Eulogy and Negation05 Katharina FürholzerChapter 4: Living Oblivion: Poetic Narratives of Dementia and Fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup’s Tarkovsky’s Horses06 Joao Paulo Guimaraes and Daae JungChapter 5: Anne Carson, Dementia and the Negative SelfSection III: Masculinity and Dementia in Film: Between Laughter and Violence07 Stefan Horlacher and Franziska RöberChapter 6: Of Bees, Boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer’s in Contemporary European Film Comedies08 Raquel MedinaChapter 7: Writing the Past to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease: Masculinity, Temporality, and Agency in Memoir of a Murderer Section IV: Perspectives on Masculinity and Dementia in Memoirs and Fictional Narratives09 Michaela Schrage-FrühChapter 8: Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger’s Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney’s Minor Monuments10 Teresa Requena-PelegriChapter 9: Narratives of Parkinson’s Dementia and Masculinities: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections11 Heike HartungChapter 10: Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The ‘Son’s Book of the Father’12 Contributors13 Index

Heike Hartung has published widely in interdisciplinary ageing studies. Recent publications include Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature and Embodied Narration. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies and co-editor of the Transcript Aging Studies publication series. Rüdiger Kunow is a retired Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies program at Potsdam University, Germany. He is a founding member of ENAS, the European Network in Aging Studies, and currently involved in the MASCAGE project. Matthew Sweney is an editor and translator, lecturer at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and researcher in the MASCAGE project “Ageing Masculinities” at the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. He earned his PhD in English and American Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

This edited book comprises some outstanding contributions whose contents can be effectively implemented in academic seminars of Medical Humanities. … The book has the merit of extending our understanding of what the spectrum of dementia is, how it can be approached and communicated inside and outside of academia. What is more, it is an appeal for everyone to recognize people with dementia and meet them on their own terms.

• Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia NarrativesEds. Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow and Matthew SweneyCONTENTS00 Acknowledgments 01 Heike Hartung and Rüdiger Kunow Introduction: Alzheimer’s Disease as a Gendered Affliction – Masculinities between Dementia Ventriloquism and Symptomatic ReadingsSection I: Conceptualizing Masculinities, Dementia Care and Embodiment02 Martina ZimmermannChapter 1: From a “Care-Free” Distance? Adult Sons about Their Parents with Dementia: A Cross-Cultural Enquiry03 Annette Leibing and Cintia EngelChapter 2: Masculinities in Brazil: Identity Tinkering and Dementia Care04 Melinda Niehus-KettlerChapter 3: Becoming One of the Others: Embodying and Eliminating Fabricated NaturesSection II: The Poetics of Dementia and Masculinity: Between Eulogy and Negation05 Katharina FürholzerChapter 4: Living Oblivion: Poetic Narratives of Dementia and Fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup’s Tarkovsky’s Horses06 Joao Paulo Guimaraes and Daae JungChapter 5: Anne Carson, Dementia and the Negative SelfSection III: Masculinity and Dementia in Film: Between Laughter and Violence07 Stefan Horlacher and Franziska RöberChapter 6: Of Bees, Boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer’s in Contemporary European Film Comedies08 Raquel MedinaChapter 7: Writing the Past to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease: Masculinity, Temporality, and Agency in Memoir of a Murderer Section IV: Perspectives on Masculinity and Dementia in Memoirs and Fictional Narratives09 Michaela Schrage-FrühChapter 8: Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger’s Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney’s Minor Monuments10 Teresa Requena-PelegriChapter 9: Narratives of Parkinson’s Dementia and Masculinities: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections11 Heike HartungChapter 10: Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The ‘Son’s Book of the Father’12 Contributors13 Index