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Beschreibung

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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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'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.

Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
Edward Said's final book, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Bloomsbury Revelations
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350016804
ISBN-10: 1350016802
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Said, Edward
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Revelations
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 217 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Edward Said
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2017
Gewicht: 0,205 kg
Artikel-ID: 108371557

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