02356nam 2200601z- 450 991047692880332120210210(CKB)5470000000566927(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33888(Narr)9783772056987(oapen)doab33888(EXLCZ)99547000000056692720202102d2020 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Production of LatenessOld Age and Creativity in Contemporary NarrativeTübingenNarr Francke Attempto20201 online resourceSchweizer Anglistische Arbeiten / Swiss Studies in English3-7720-8698-5 3-7720-5698-9 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.Production of Lateness Literature: history and criticismbicsscMusicbicsscThe Arts: treatments and subjectsbicsscAutobiographyBeethovenCreativityCultural GerontologyDeathDementiaGenderJoan DidionJohn BarthKaren BlixenLate StyleLiteratureMetafictionNarrativeOld AgeTheodor AdornoLiterature: history and criticismMusicThe Arts: treatments and subjectsRivera Godoy-Benesch Rahelauth1278273BOOK9910476928803321The Production of Lateness3013002UNINA