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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 purp

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Author

Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch; Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Publisher

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag Tübingen

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783772001147

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Linguistics, Literary Fiction, Comparative Literature

Updated

2026-03-25