Online resources for Literature and the Lifecourse
NB It's a good idea to be logged on to the 91福利 Library webpage before you start so that these links take you directly to the articles.
Childhood
Adolescence
A good blog post with lots of references to reading on adolescence from a high school teacher:
And film...
Coming of age films (an annotated list):
A short talk about the depiction of adolescence (particularly in relation to gender) in Pixar's recent film Brave (and other Pixar films) by academic at Emory University (with clips!). Not especially deep in itself, but a starting point if this is a genre you like:
A montage on
Adulthood
A useful discussion of adulthood (and queer challenges to its normative (and heteronormative) construction (in a JStor editorial round-up of research). Discussion of broader changes in conception of the idea too. Pamela Aronson: '鈥渙bjective life events鈥� still frequently used in mainstream discourse to measure the entrance into adulthood鈥斺�渃ompleting education, entering the labor force, becoming financially independent, getting married, and becoming a parent鈥濃�攁re based on outdated assumptions about class and gender.' (Discuss!) Read more here:
Old Age
Short Stories
Article about Tales of Love in Later Life
