Session 1

Overview of Contexts for the Study of Ageing in Literature: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North

Core Presentation 1 | Core Presentation 2

 

Session 2

Anita Desai, ‘A Devoted Son’

• Desai, Anita. "A Devoted Son." Games at Twilight and Other Stories. Harper & Row, 1978, pp. 70-81.

Core Presentation | Discussion Points

 

Session 3

Tove Jansson, ‘The Morning Swim’ (from The Summer Book)

• Tove Jansson, ‘The Morning Swim’, in The Summer Book, Trans. Thomas Teal. New York: Random House, 1974; rpt. 2022, London: Sort Of Books, pp.21-24.

Core Presentation | Discussion Points

 

Session 4

Keki N. Daruwalla, ‘Nurse and Sentinel’ and William Butler Yeats, ‘An Acre of Grass’

• Daruwalla, Keki N. "Nurse and Sentinel." Collected Poems: 1970-2005. Penguin Books, 2006, pp. 26-27.
• William Butler Yeats, ‘An Acre of Grass’, in W B Yeats: Collected Poems, 1889-1939. London Macmillan and Co. 1939, pp-315-316.

Core Presentation (Daruwalla) (Yeats) | Discussion Points

 

Session 5

Seamus Heaney, ‘A Kite for Aibhin’ and Manohar Shetty, 'The Old Scholar’

• Seamus Heaney, ‘A Kite for Aibhín’, in Human Chain. London: Faber and Faber, p.85.
• Shetty, Manohar. "The Old Scholar." Body Language. Poetrywala, 2012, pp. 65-66. We gratefully acknowledge the granting of copyright permission from the Poetrywala Foundation for reproducing ‘The Old Scholar’.

Text (Shetty) | Core Presentation (Heaney) (Shetty) | Discussion Points