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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894--Knowledge--History.

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894--Aesthetics.

Historicism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 1989

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Carolyn Williams is Chair and Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the author most recently of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501707117

1501707116

9781501707124

1501707124

OCLC:

747304456