Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / Carolyn Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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ISBN:
  • 9781501707117
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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.
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

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