Studies in the History of the Renaissance (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Pater, Walter; Beaumont, Matthew

 
9780199535071: Studies in the History of the Renaissance (Oxford World's Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199535078 ISBN 13: 9780199535071
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2010

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Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. Pater's infamous "Conclusion," which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition of 1873. Matthew Beaumont's Introduction describes the cultural context that gave rise to the book, the reasons for its notoriety, Pater's philosophical outlook, and the arguments in his book. It explores Pater's work as an attempt to preserve the unique aesthetic of a work of art in the face of encroaching mass culture. The book also includes the later chapter on Giorgione as an Appendix, comprehensive notes that identify the many literary and artistic references, and a useful glossary of names.

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Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English at the University College London.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199535078
ISBN 13 
9780199535071
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Anzahl der Seiten
193
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