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Creativity in Later Life: Beyond Late Style book cover

1st Edition

Creativity in Later Life Beyond Late Style

Edited By David Amigoni, Gordon McMullan Copyright 2019
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume reflect... Read more

Introduction



David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan





　



The challenges of late-life creativity









  1. Imagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontology




    2. Ruth Ray







  2. The singing voice in late life




    3. Jane Manning







  3. Creative ageing: the social policy challenge




    4. Susan Hogan and Emily Bradfield





    　



    Rethinking late style







  4. Turner’s last works and his critics




    5. Sam Smiles







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




    6. Gordon McMullan







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




    7. Robert Spencer





    　



    The varieties of late-life creativity







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




    8. Miriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett







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




    9. generated social capital in the lives of older people



    Jackie Reynolds







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




    10. Hannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie Almira







  10. Visual diaries, creativity and everyday life




    11. Wendy Martin and Katy Pilcher







  11. Self, civic engagement and late-life creativity




    12. Angela Glendenning







    Narrating dementia







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




    13. 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




    14. Liz Postlethwaite







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




    15. Martina Zimmerman







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




    16. 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




    17. 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







　



　



　

Biography

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

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