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LATE STYLE AND ITS DISCONTENTS essays in art, literature, and music.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: OXFORD : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780191009938
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  • NX160 .L384 2016
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Subject: Late style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliché 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Plates; Contributors; Introduction: Late Style and its Discontents; Part I: Lateness, History, Modernity; 1: From Titian to Impressionism: The Genealogy of Late Style; 2: The 'Strangeness' of George Oppen: Criticism, Modernity, and the Conditions of Late Style; The Invention of Lateness; Lateness and Modernity; Reading Lateness: The Case of George Oppen; Late Style and Its Discontents; Part II: Lateness and the Life Course; 3: Historicizing Late Style as a Discourse of Reception

The Vague and Paradoxical Contradictions of Late Style Discourse and their ConsequencesLate Style as A Critical Construct; The Psychology of Older Age; Productivity vs Creativity; Defining 'Style' in Late Style; Conclusion; 4: Making Darwin Late: Later Life and Style in Evolutionary Writing and its Contexts; Introduction; Science, Literature, and Late Style; 'Kindly, Driven, Infirm': Darwin and a Discourse of 'Lateness'; Late Worms: Late Style; Conclusion: From Darwin's Late Worms to E. O. Wilson's Late Ants; 5: In the Antechamber of Death: Picasso's Later Paintings; Attitudes to Old Age

Responding to CrisisSeeking Resolution; The Good Enough Painting; Eroticism and Sexuality; Picasso, Ingres, Raphael and La Fornarina; Withdrawal, Debility, and the Masquerade of Life; Reviewing the Past; A Sense of Posterity; Part III: Constructing Lateness; 6: The 'Late Styles' of Gioachino Rossini; 7: Saving Schubert: The Evasions of Late Style; The Music Stops; 8: Perceptions of Lateness: Goethe, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and D. H. Lawrence; Part IV: The Time and Place of Lateness; 9: Suffering Sea Changes: Jane Austen's Afterlives and the Possibilities of a Late Style

10: Ravel's Timeliness and his Many Late StylesWar and Premat ure Aging; La Valse, Timeliness, and Catastrophe; Aesthetic and Stylistic Inconsistency; Emerging Subjectivity; Towards Old Age: Serving the Patrimoine; Conclusions; 11: 'Anachronism': Michael Hamburger and the Time and Place of Late Work; Acknowledgements; Part V: Adorno, Lateness, History; 12: Notes on Beethoven's Late Style; The Music; Thinking About Style; Around Adorno; 13: The Infinity of Water Lilies: On Monet's Late Paintings; 14: Lateness and Modernity in Theodor Adorno; Late Style; Lateness; Conclusion; Afterword

Late style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliché 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.

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