Transfigured World Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

• Hoofdauteur: Williams, Carolyn (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Cornell University Press 1989
• Onderwerpen: Biography & True Stories; historicism; romanticism; Marius the Epicurean; astheticism; Leonardo da Vinci; figural strategies; Victorianism; Renaissance; literary theory; Plato and Platonism; Greek Studies; Walter Pater
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Samenvatting

<p>Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice. Williams discusses the explicit and embedded narratives that play a crucial role in Pater's aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae.<p>

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1 electronic resource (304 p.)

ISBN

9781501707247

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Open Access