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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.
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Keywords
- Art treatments & subjects
- Autobiography
- Beethoven
- creativity
- Cultural Gerontology
- Death
- Dementia
- gender
- Joan Didion
- John Barth
- Karen Blixen
- Late Style
- Literature
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Metafiction
- Music
- Narrative
- Old age
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
- Theodor Adorno
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DOI: 10.2357/9783772056987Editions