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Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism.
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 Paters aestheticism and his historicism should be understood a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
Nov. 2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One. Opening Conclusions
- 1. "That Which Is Without"
- 2. "The Inward World of Thought and Feeling"
- 3. Aestheticism
- 4. Answerable Style
- 5. Historicism
- 6. Aesthetic Historicism and "Aesthetic Poetry"
- 7. The Poetics of Revival
- Part Two. Figural Strategies in The Renaissance
- 1. Legend and Historicity
- 2. Myths of History: The Last Supper
- 3. The Historicity of Myth
- 4. Myths of History: The Mona Lisa
- 5. Types and Figures
- 6. Low and High Relief: " Luca Della Robbia"
- 7. The Senses of Relief
- Part Three. Historical Novelty and Marius the Epicurean
- 1. The Transparent Hero
- 2. Autobiography of the Zeitgeist
- 3. The Transcendental Induction
- 4. Typology as Narrative Form
- 5. Typological Ladders
- 6. Christian Historicism
- 7. Literary History as "Appreciation"
- Part Four. "Recovery as Reminiscence" : The Greek Studies and Plato and Platonism
- 1. Histories of Myth: The Greek Studies
- 2. The House Beautiful and Its Interpreter
- 3. The Philosophy of Mythic Form
- 4. The History of Philosophy
- 5. The Anecdote of the Shell
- 6. Dialogue and Dialectic
- 7. Paterian Recollection: The Anagogic Mind
- Afterword
- Index