On Late Style : Music and Literature Against the Grain

ISBN-13: 9780747585602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str.

Edward W Said

Opis

Examines the work produced by great artists - Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. This work helps the reader to 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.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

Said, EdwardEdward 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.