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oapen-20.500.12657-414882020-08-26T00:57:32Z The Production of Lateness Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel Late Style Old Age Creativity Literature Gender John Barth Karen Blixen Joan Didion Theodor Adorno Beethoven Metafiction Narrative Autobiography Dementia Death Cultural Gerontology bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music 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. 2020-08-25T12:17:14Z 2020-08-25T12:17:14Z 2020 book ONIX_20200825_9783772056987_51 0080-7214 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41488 eng Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten / Swiss Studies in English application/pdf Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9783772056987.pdf https://elibrary.narr.digital/book/99.125005/9783772056987 Narr Francke Attempto 10.2357/9783772056987 10.2357/9783772056987 5776068c-8a4d-43c6-868c-d8db89b23137 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 146 Tübingen 10BP12_192956 Open Access Books The Production of Lateness: Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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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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