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The Production of Lateness

Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-7720-8698-4 / 978-3772086984 / 9783772086984

Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto

Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2020

Seiten: 205

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch

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