Edward Said

On Late Style (eBook, PDF)

Music and Literature Against the Grain

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Produktbeschreibung

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350016811
• Artikelnr.: 47954267

Autorenporträt

Edward Said (1935-2003) was one of the founding voices of postcolonial critical theory and the author of Orientalism, one of the most impassioned and influential works in its field. One of the most high profile advocates for Palestinian rights, he was also University Professor English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA.

Edward Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and On Late Style and his essays and reviews appeared in newspapers and periodicals throughout the world. Edward Said died in September 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists. London Review of Books