Transfigured world : Walter Pater's aesthetic historicism /

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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 unders...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Carolyn, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Subjects:
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Knowledge and learning.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Knowledge > History.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Aesthetics.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Esthétique.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Et l'histoire.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894
Pater, Walter (Schriftsteller)
Historicism.
Historicisme.
historicism (theory)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Learning and scholarship
History
Historicism
Ästhetik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one: Opening conclusions
  • Part two: Figural strategies in the Renaissance
  • Part three: Historical novelty and Marius the Epicurean
  • Part four: "Recovery as reminiscence": the Greek studies and Plato and Platonism
  • Afterword.

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