The Production of Lateness E-Book

Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch

• Herausgeber: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA)
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 569

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

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.