Author : Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783772001147
The Production of Lateness by Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch Pdf
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.