Creativity in Later Life: Beyond Late Style

ISBN-13: 9780367582494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

David Amigoni; Gordon McMullan

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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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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

　

　

　

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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