Late Style and its Discontents

''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...