Transfigured World

Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

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Carolyn Williams

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Hardback

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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 Pater’s 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 Pater’s aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae.

Author Biography:

Carolyn Williams is Chair and Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the author most recently of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody.

Release date Australia

January 18th, 1990

Author

Carolyn Williams

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Pages

290

Dimensions

155x235x27

ISBN-13

9780801421518

Product ID

14450680

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