Transfigured World

Carolyn Williams

Description

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.

Sujets

• Idioma inglés
• Reino Unido
• Literary theory
• United Kingdom
• English
• Great Britain
• Anglais
• Royaume-Uni

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501707124
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Transigured World

· WALTER paTER'S AeSTHETIc HISTORIcISM ·

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First published1989by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks,2016.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Williams, Carolyn,1950–  Transîgured world: Walter Pater’s aesthetic historicism / Carolyn Williams p. cm. Includes index.  ISBN978-0-8014-2151-8(cloth : alk. paper)  ISBN9781501707247(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pater, Walter,1839–1894—Aesthetics.2. Pater, Walter,1839–1894— Knowledge—History.3I. Title.. Historicism. PR5138.A35W51989 824'.8—dc2089-42883

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