Works of Walter Pater

Informationen zum Autor Walter Pater (1839-1894), was an English critic, essayist, and humanist who argued that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose. "Art for art's sake" is a core principle of Aestheticism, the movement he helped found. Pater's exquisite writing style and bold ideas exerted a powerful influence on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens and has had lasting influence on the field of art criticism. Klappentext Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and aesthetic experience. He brought his knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about our response to art. This edition of Pater's complete works was published in 1900-1 in a limited edition of 775 copies. It comprises eight volumes of his major works with an additional volume of essays first published in The Guardian. This volume reissues Pater's magazine articles along with his early essay 'Diaphanitè', a work that had been controversial for its homoerotic subtext. The collection was first published in 1895 as part of his literary executor C. L. Shadwell's aim to promote Pater's work. This version includes a chronology of Pater's writings. Zusammenfassung This collection of Pater's uncollected magazine articles, along with his early, controversial essay 'Diaphanitè', was first published posthumously in 1895, under the editorship of C.L. Shadwell, and reissued here as the eighth volume in the collected works of 1900–1. The volume also includes a chronology of Pater's published writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prosper Mérimée; Raphael; Pascal; Art notes in North Italy; Notre-Dame d'Amiens; Vézelay; Apollo in Picardy; The child in the house; Emerald Uthwart; Diaphaneitè....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Walter Pater, Pater Walter
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108034302
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03430-2
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies; The Works of Walter Pater 9 Volume Set
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form