Jonathan Reeve
Literary Modeling and Visualization Lab
Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities
Columbia University
“The maturity of the late works of significant artists does not resemble the kind one finds in fruit. They are, for the most part, not round, but furrowed, even ravaged. Devoid of sweetness, bitter and spiny, they do not surrender themselves to mere delectation.” (Adorno, quoted in Said) - Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Said: “[late style] has the power to render disenchantment and pleasure without resolving the contradiction between them. What hold them in tension, as equal forces straining in opposite directions, is the artist’s mature subjectivity, stripped of hubris and pomposity, unashamed either of its fallibility or of the modest assurance it has gained as a result of age and exile”
Author | Periodicity Score |
---|---|
James | 0.472 |
Dickens | 0.469 |
Genet | 0.457 |
Mann | 0.367 |
Conrad | 0.177 |
Cather | 0.177 |
Ward | 0.166 |
Proust | 0.023 |
-0.0171
(Early style, not late style.)
Mean: -0.0288
(Even stronger early style.)