Rereading Walter Pater

Zusammenfassung In this 1997 book! William F. Shuter shows how Walter Pater attempted to rewrite his own literary and cultural past! and how Pater's later work serves! paradoxically! as a necessary introduction to the earlier. This rereading reveals patterns of continuity and anticipation! and sheds light on Pater and his writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: an initial reading; 1. The periegetic critic and the imaginative sense of place; 2. The retrojective apologist; 3. Heraclitus, Hegel, and Plato; 4. The dubious academic; 5. Visiting the dead; Conclusion: rereading, revising, and reshuffling.

Product details

• Authors: William F. Shuter, William F. (Eastern Michigan University) Shuter
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521019811
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01981-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies