Гайдаш, Анна Владиславівна (2015) Traumatic experience of the literary representations of the elderly characters in the US drama Сучасні літературознавчі студії. pp. 125-134.
The paper studies the forms of traumatic experience of the literary representations of the elderly characters in the play "The exact center of the universe" by Joan Thorne. The attention is focused on the recent findings in the theory of psychological trauma. The notion of literary gerontology is introduced as an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities. The drama representations of gerontogenesis are analyzed in the context of ageism.