Walter Pater
The Aesthetic Moment
Part of European Studies in English Literature
- Author: Wolfgang Iser
- Translator: David H. Wilson
- Date Published: February 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521179287
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Wolfgang Iser's study of Walter Pater (1839–94) was first published in German in 1960. It places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major exponents were Hegel and Coleridge, at the same time showing how Pater differed crucially from these thinkers to become representative of a late Victorian culture critically poised in transition between Romanticism and Modernism. Pater's new definitions of 'beauty' and 'style' in art, his doctrine of 'art for art's sake', his preoccupation with aesthetic existence, his fascination with periods of balance and historical transition are seen in the light of his scepticism towards all systematisation and his view of art as countering human finiteness by capturing the intensity of the moment. This important book, which remains as illuminating now as when it first appeared, will interest those interested in philosophy and aesthetics and Pater specialists alike.
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521179287
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword
Part I. Introduction
Section 1. Pater Criticism
Section 2. Historical Preliminaries:
1. Art as creation
2. Art as mimesis
Part II. Autonomous Art
Section 3. The Starting Point:
1. Scepticism
2. The essay
3. Defining human existence
4. Expression
Section 4. Defining Art:
1. 'Art for art's sake'
2. Impressionism
3. Style
Section 5. The Problem of Orientation:
1. Beauty
2. 'Postscript'
Part III. Art and History
Section 6. What Is History?:
1. Hegelian schematism
2. Historicity
3. 'House Beautiful'
Section 7. The Limits of Historical Legitimation:
1. Plato and Platonism
2. Glaston de Latour
Part IV. Art and Myth
Section 8. The Ancient Gods:
1. Cult and ritual
2. 'The myth of Demeter and Persephone'
3. 'A study of Dionysis'
Section 9. The Limits of Mythical Legitimation:
1. 'Apollo in Picardy'
2. Pater and Nietzche
Part V. The Aesthetic Existence
Section 10. Marius the Epicurean:
1. The form
2. The problem
Section 11. Imaginary Portraits:
1. The form
2. 'A Prince of Court Painters'
3. Denys l'Auxerrois'
4. 'Sebastian van Storck'
5. 'Duke Carl of Rosenmold'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Biographical addendum
Index of names
Index of subjects.
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