A One-day Conference at the University of Manchester
Council Chamber, Whitworth Building

A symposium to address the possibilities and limits of notions of 'late style' – as discussed by, for example, Theodor W. Adorno and Edward Said – for literature, culture, politics and the history of ideas.

Schedule:
10:00 - 10:30 Registration and coffee

10:30 - 11:45 Gordon McMullan (King's College London)
‘The Invention of Late Style’

11:50 - 12:50 Robert Spencer (Manchester)
‘Late Yeats: “Beating upon the wall” of the Irish Free State’

12:50 - 2:15 Lunch

2:15 - 3:15 Andrew Frayn (Manchester)
‘“Literary forms do become exhausted, clapped out, as well”: Late Modernism and Late Style’

3.15 - 3.30 Tea

3.30 - 4.45 Michael Bell (Warwick)
‘Late Styles? Goethe, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann and D.H. Lawrence’

The conference is free, but please e-mail lateness@manchester.ac.uk to confirm your attendance.