On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his...
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White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95
The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson—recluse, poet—and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.
Their friendship began in 1862. The Civil War was raging. Dickinson was thirty-one; Higginson, thirty-eight. A former pastor at the Free Church of Worcester, Massachusetts...
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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.
Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet...
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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $25.00
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his...
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