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Reception of Walter Pater in Europe

By Stephen Bann

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2005
ISBN
0826468462, 9780826468468, 9781847144331
LCC
PR5137.E87 .R43 2004
Open Library ID
OL3306776M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20988703 bytes)
Series
Reception Of British & Irish Authors Europe
Pages
328\322
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater's critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, however, enthusiastic disciplies such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the German-speaking world and Charles Du Bos in France, helped to fuel a growing awareness of his writings as central to the emergence of modernist literature. Translations of works like Imaginary Portraits, established his distinctive voice as an aesthetic critic and his novel, Marius the Epicurean, was enthusiastically received in Paris in the 1920s and published in Turin on the eve of the second world war. This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

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