The Production of Lateness : Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative

• Autore: Rivera Godoy-Benesch Rahel
• Pubblicazione: Tübingen, : Narr Francke Attempto, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetto topico: Literature: history and criticism; Music; The Arts: treatments and subjects
• Soggetto non controllato: Autobiography; Beethoven; Creativity; Cultural Gerontology; Death; Dementia; Gender; Joan Didion; John Barth; Karen Blixen; Late Style; Literature; Metafiction; Narrative; Old Age; Theodor Adorno
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Production of Lateness
• Titolo autorizzato: The Production of Lateness
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476928803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II