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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (Vintage)
by Edward W Said

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.

Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's discipline–works of true genius. Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work.

Review:

“These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate what his admirers already knew, the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.”

—Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

“Brilliant. . . . This gracefully unquiet, probing and wise book [is] Said’s own elegiac masterpiece of late style.” —Financial Times

“Fascinating and stimulating. . . . Said, as with the best writers, is someone you like to spend time with. . . . This book is a fine monument to his life and work.” —The New Statesman

“His critic’s eye remain[s] original and compelling.”

—Wilson Quarterly

Synopsis:

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way "with anachronism and anomaly" into his work. Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, ON LATE STYLE is Edward Said's own great last work.

Synopsis:

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.

Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's discipline–works of true genius. Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work.

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About the Author

Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Culture and Imperialism; Representations of the Intellectual; The End of the Peace Process; Power, Politics, and Culture; and Out of Place: A Memoir His books have been published in thirty-six languages. He died in 2003.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780375726330
Subtitle:
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Author:
Said, Edward W
Introduction:
Wood, Michael
Foreword:
Said, Mariam C.
Author:
Said, Edward W.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Subject:
General
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
Subject:
History & Criticism - General
Series:
Vintage
Publication Date:
April 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
8.00x5.28x.53 in. .50 lbs.
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