Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 7
3. Introduction 9
4. Rediscovering ageing through narratives of Mentorship
5. Getting Old, Dreaming Youth: Notes about Fanny Burney 21
6. I may be retired—however, I am still a very busy man 29
7. Rumi, Sufi Spirituality and the Teacher- Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love 47
8. Saviors and Survivors 69
9. Literary Mentors for Life 87
10. The Many Functions of Furniture 105
11. Experience as Mentor in Helping to Deal with Old Age 119
12. “One must take it as it comes” 125
13. Toledo 147
14. Lessons Learnt: CollAge for Maria and Brian
15. Of Trees and Fire 155
16. Embodied Legacies of Mentoring and Role Models 157
17. Mentorship as a Lifelong Experience 158
18. Reflections on Academic Generations and the Possibilities of Mentorship 160
19. All that Remains 161
20. On Listening to the ‘Music for two Pianos’ 162
21. Maria And Brian— Our Parental Figures in the World of Academia 165
22. Connecting People through Brian and Maria—No Limits 166
23. To Feel Part of a Dream 167
24. Let’s have tea in “La Torre”: Mentoring through Affection 169
25. Your Child of Sorts—A Tribute to Maria & Brian 171
26. Notes
27. Notes on Editors 173
28. Notes on Contributors 174