Late Style and Its Discontents Essays in Art Literature and Music 1st Edition by Gordon Mcmullan, Sam Smiles ISBN 0191091243 9780191091247

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ISBN 10:    0191091243
ISBN 13: 978-0191091247
Author:      Gordon Mcmullan, Sam Smiles

“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 characterized as the imaginative response made by exceptional talents to the imminence of their death. In their confrontation with death creative artists, critics claim, produce work that is by turns a determination to continue while strength remains, a summation of their life’s work and a radical vision of the essence of their craft. And because this creative phenomenon is understood as primarily an existential response to a common fate, so late style is understood as something that transcends the particularities of place, time and medium. Critics seeking to understand late work regularly invoke the examples of Titian, Goethe, and Beethoven as exemplars of what constitutes late work, proposing that something unites the late style of authors, composers, and creative artists who otherwise would not be bracketed together and that lateness per se is a special order of creative work.

The essays in this collection resist this position. Ranging across literature, the visual arts, music, and scientific work, the material assembled here looks closely at the material, biographical and other contexts in which the work was produced and seeks both to question the assumptions surrounding late style and to prompt a more critical understanding of the last works of writers, artists and composers.

Late Style and Its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music 1st Table of contents:

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

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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 Consequences
   • Late 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 Crisis
   • Seeking 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

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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

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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 Styles

• War and Premature 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

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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

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