TY  - GEN
T1  - The Production of Lateness
A1  - Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel
LA  - eng
PB  - Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-33888
AB  - 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.
KW  - Late Style
KW  - Old Age
KW  - Creativity
KW  - Literature
KW  - Gender
KW  - John Barth
KW  - Karen Blixen
KW  - Joan Didion
KW  - Theodor Adorno
KW  - Beethoven
KW  - Metafiction
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Death
KW  - Cultural Gerontology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
KW  - thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects
KW  - thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
ER  -