Walter Pater : Humanist

This provocative study suggests that Pater, usually thought of as a florid prose stylist and second-rate adjunct to the Esthetic Movement, is, in reality, an articulate prophet of the twentieth century. Pater's work, the book indicates, shows a consistent concern with the transmission of humanism from one generation to the next through the medium of art. The link in that transmission is the human image in a milieu -- the appearance of man as manifested in painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, or drama. Pater's fiction, as well as his criticism, strives to create a milieu, extracting both what is

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Person Crinkley, Richmond, 1940-1989
Ausgabe1st ed.
Ort, Verlag, Jahr Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky , 1970
Umfang1 online resource (200 p.)
ISBN0-8131-6257-2
SpracheEnglisch
ZusatzinfoIncludes index.
ZusatzinfoCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Renaissance; CHAPTER TWO The Critic of Form; CHAPTER THREE The Living & the Dead; CHAPTER FOUR The House Beautiful & the Cathedral; CHAPTER FIVE The Hard, Gemlike Flame in Aurelian Rome; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y
ZusatzinfoEnglish
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Renaissance; CHAPTER TWO The Critic of Form; CHAPTER THREE The Living & the Dead; CHAPTER FOUR The House Beautiful & the Cathedral; CHAPTER FIVE The Hard, Gemlike Flame in Aurelian Rome; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y