Creativity in Later Life (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond Late Style
Redaktion: Amigoni, David; Mcmullan, Gordon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively received idea of 'late style'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351866361
• Artikelnr.: 54784032

Autorenporträt

David Amigoni is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Enterprise and Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London, UK; and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan



The challenges of late-life creativity

1. Imagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontology




Ruth Ray




2. The singing voice in late life




Jane Manning




3. Creative ageing: the social policy challenge




Susan Hogan and Emily Bradfield



Rethinking late style


4. Turner's last works and his critics




Sam Smiles




5. Constructing a late style for David Bowie: old age, late-life creativity, popular culture




Gordon McMullan




6. An 'old man in the dimming world': Theodor Adorno, Derek Walcott and a defence of the idea of late style




Robert Spencer



The varieties of late-life creativity


7. Late-life creativity: assessing the value of theatre in later life




Miriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett




8. Late-life creativity: methods for understanding arts-


generated social capital in the lives of older people



Jackie Reynolds




9. 'It's play, really, isn't it?': dress, creativity, old age




Hannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie Almira




10. Visual diaries, creativity and everyday life




Wendy Martin and Katy Pilcher




11. Self, civic engagement and late-life creativity




Angela Glendenning



Narrating dementia


12. A critical narrative on late-life creativity and dementia: integrating citizenship, embodiment and relationality




Pia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich




13. 'The artistry of it all': narrating The Tempest, dementia and the mapping of identity in a Manchester extrincare housing scheme




Liz Postlethwaite




14. Terry Pratchett's Living with Alzheimer's as a case study in late-life creativity




Martina Zimmerman




15. Narratives as talking therapy: research with Sikh carers of a family member with dementia in Wolverhampton




Karan Jutlla



Old age, creativity and the late city


16. 'Work, work, work and full steam ahead': Ian McKay and the conserving radicalism of the Gorton Visual Art Group, public artists in later life




John Miles




17. The late Peter Rice: late-style stories of ageing and the city in A Bright Past for Stoke on Trent

David Amigoni