Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater - Couverture rigide

Monsman, Gerald Cornelius

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080180471X ISBN 13 : 9780801804717

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967

Synopsis

Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description. Pater is rarely vivid and firsthand in his fiction; he tends instead toward exposition. Monsman's emphasis in Pater's Portraits is "tracing out" the conscious artistic structure of Pater's fiction. The scope of Pater's writings comprises nothing less than Western culture itself; its subject is all that man has written, thought, said, sung, hoped, or prayed as a civilized creature over two and one-half millennia. Pater's success in handling such panoply is attributable to his discovery of a coherent pattern by which art, religion, and life can be organized. Monsman aims to discover in Pater's fiction the use of old scientific-religious patterns of myth to explain moments of religious and cultural awakening, to reveal the way in which one man arrived at a credo that would answer to the desolation of life and culture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gerald Monsman is a professor of English at the University of Arizona. He specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglo-African literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080180471X
• ISBN 13: 9780801804717
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible