On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2017
144 pages
978-1-350-01682-8 (ISBN)
Description
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'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books
'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' - Financial Times
'What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work' - Hanif Kureishi
'His own late style, if it is acceptable to call it that, mixes an easy mastery of material with an unquenched desire to preserve difficulties' - Guardian
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On Late Style examines the work produced by great artists -Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. Said makes it clear that, rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavour, most of the late works discussed are rife with contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. He helps us see how, though these works often stood in direct contrast to the tastes of society, they were, just as often, announcements of what was to come in the artist's discipline - works of true artistic genius.
'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books
'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' - Financial Times
'What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work' - Hanif Kureishi
'His own late style, if it is acceptable to call it that, mixes an easy mastery of material with an unquenched desire to preserve difficulties' - Guardian
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On Late Style examines the work produced by great artists -Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. Said makes it clear that, rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavour, most of the late works discussed are rife with contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. He helps us see how, though these works often stood in direct contrast to the tastes of society, they were, just as often, announcements of what was to come in the artist's discipline - works of true artistic genius.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-350-01682-8 (9781350016828)
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Person
Edward Said (1935-2003) was one of the founding voices of postcolonial critical theory the author of Orientalism. A high profile advocate for Palestinian rights, he was also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA.
Content
Foreword by Mariam C. Said
Introduction by Michael Wood
1. Timeliness and Lateness
2. Return to the Eighteenth Century
3. Cosìfan tutte at the Limits
4. On Jean Genet
5. A Lingering Old Order
6. The Virtuoso as Intellectual
7. Glimpses of Late Style
Notes
Index
Introduction by Michael Wood
1. Timeliness and Lateness
2. Return to the Eighteenth Century
3. Cosìfan tutte at the Limits
4. On Jean Genet
5. A Lingering Old Order
6. The Virtuoso as Intellectual
7. Glimpses of Late Style
Notes
Index
