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Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

By Pater , Carolyn , Walter;Williams

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781501707117, 9781501707124, 1501707124, 9781501707247, 1501707248
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1139989 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 Paters 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 Paters 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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