On Late Style

Music and Literature Against the Grain

Edward Said

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Bloomsbury Publishing
23 February 2017

Literary theory; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Society & Social Sciences

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

‘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

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.

By: Edward Said
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781350016804
ISBN 10: 1350016802
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 23 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

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 * 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 * Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style * Financial Times *