TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel
AB  - This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably. Prevalent „peak-and-decline“ models suggest that artists, as they grow old, cease to produce highquality work. Aiming to counter such ageist discourses, the present study proposes a new ethics of reading literary texts by elderly authors. For this purpose, it develops a methodology that consolidates textual analysis with cultural gerontology.
DO  - 10.2357/9783772056987
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200825_9783772056987_51
ID  - OAPEN ID: 0080-7214
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41488
KW  - Late Style
KW  - Old Age
KW  - Creativity
KW  - Literature
KW  - Gender
KW  - John Barth
KW  - Karen Blixen
KW  - Joan Didion
KW  - Theodor Adorno
KW  - Beethoven
KW  - Metafiction
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Death
KW  - Cultural Gerontology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41488/1/9783772056987.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33888
PB  - Narr Francke Attempto
PP  - Tübingen
PY  - 2020
TI  - The Production of Lateness : Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative
ER  - 
