On Late Style Music and Literature Against the Grain

Name: On Late Style Music and Literature Against the Grain
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ISBN: 9780375726330

ISBN-10: 0375726330

ISBN-13: 9780375726330

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward W. Said, Mariam C. Said, Michael Wood

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English