The Production of Lateness
Subtitle: Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Tübingen
ISBN-13: 9783772056987
Subjects: Music; Literature: history & criticism; Art treatments & subjects
Description: 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.
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