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LATE STYLE AND ITS DISCONTENTS : essays in art, literature, and music.
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 existenti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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OXFORD :
OXFORD University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.