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

• Tác giả: Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3772056987
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 813.52 American fiction in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 181549
• Chủ đề: 1. Art treatments & subjects; 2. Literature: history & criticism; 3. Music

Tóm tắt

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.