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On late style
music and literature against the grain
By Said, Edward W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37542-105-1
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2006
The late Said, best known for his seminalOrientalism (1978), bids farewell to his public in this posthumous monograph based on a popular graduate course he taught at Columbia University in 1995. It concerns what Said called "late style," characterized by "intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved contradiction." Beethoven's late style-which eschews the heroic and harmonious mode of his more popular middle period for a more eclectic and subjective one-serves as the a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
