Aesthetics, theory and interpretation of the literary work / by Paolo Euron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Euron, Paolo, 1965- author.

Series:

Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education; volume133.

Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education; volume133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Criticism.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Aesthetics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2019.

Summary:

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two main traditions of Western culture: one of aesthetics and the theory of art and the other of literary theory. In our postmodern world, language and artistic creation (and above all literature as the art of language) occupy a special role in understanding the human world and become existential issues. A critical attitude requires knowledge of the relevant past in order to understand what we are today. The author presents key topics, ideas, and representatives of aesthetics, theory, and the interpretation of works of art in an historical perspective, in order to explain the Western tradition with constant attention to the present condition. Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work offers an outline of essential concepts and authors of aesthetics and theories of the literary work, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development, considering their relevance to the contemporary debate, and highlighting the specificity of the experience of the art work in our present world. The best way to approach a work of art is to enjoy it. In order to enjoy a literary work, we have to consider its correct context and its specific artistic qualities. The book is conceived as a general and enjoyable introduction to the experience of the work of art in Western culture.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Introduction

Art, Beauty and Imitation in Plato’s Philosophy

Art and Imitation in Aristotle

Horace, Pseudo-Longinus and the Aesthetics of Literature in Hellenism

Plotinus, Neo-Platonic and Christian Conception of Beauty

The Middle Ages and Dante Alighieri

Humanism and the New Idea of Human Beings

Italian Neo-Platonism and Marsilio Ficino

The New Idea of the Human Being and Artist

The Baroque: History and Poetry in Giambattista Vico

Baumgarten

Kant and the Origin of Modern Aesthetics

The Heritage of Kantian Philosophy in Romanticism

Moritz

Theory of Poetry of Early German Romanticism

Hegel

Schopenhauer

Nietzsche

Symbolism and Aestheticism

Benedetto Croce

Linguistics and Criticism

Antonio Gramsci

Structuralism

Martin Heidegger

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Critical Theory

Perspectives of Post-Structuralism

The Practice of Deconstruction

Contemporary Schools and Traditions in Literary and Critical Theory

Postmodern and the New Character of the Literary Work

Back Matter

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical refrerences and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-40923-8

OCLC:

1114976784

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004409231 DOI