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Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music
Gordon McMullan
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Description for Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music
Hardcover. Late style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of 'late style' , questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament. Editor(s): Smiles, Sam; McMullan, Gordon. Num Pages: 250 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the artist's oeuvre, 'late' being the antonym of 'early' or the third term in the triad 'early-middle-late'. However, almost from its inception, the idea of late style or late work has been freighted with aesthetic associations and expectations that promote it as a special episode in the artist's creative life. Late style is often ... Read more
'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the artist's oeuvre, 'late' being the antonym of 'early' or the third term in the triad 'early-middle-late'. However, almost from its inception, the idea of late style or late work has been freighted with aesthetic associations and expectations that promote it as a special episode in the artist's creative life. Late style is often ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198704621
SKU
V9780198704621
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About Gordon McMullan
Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is a critic and an editor with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern drama. He is a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of ... Read more
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