Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch

Gebundenes Buch

The Production of Lateness

Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative

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.

Autor

Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch ist Anglistin und forscht an der Schnittstelle zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Gerontologie.

Produktdetails

• Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) 146
• Verlag: Francke
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 38698
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 158mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9783772086984
• Artikelnr.: 58600237