This highly original and learned book is the first to study in detail Walter Pater's The Renaissance and examine the literary traditions to which it belongs: poetry, fiction, history, and criticism. Exploring Pater's neglected playfulness his uses of irony, paradox, and parody it traces with sparkling wit and elegance Pater's relations to poetry from Baudelaire to Ashbery; to fiction from Hugo and Flaubert to Virginia Woolf and Nabokov. Pater's role in the history of modern criticism from Hazlitt and Gautier to Eliot, ...
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This highly original and learned book is the first to study in detail Walter Pater's The Renaissance and examine the literary traditions to which it belongs: poetry, fiction, history, and criticism. Exploring Pater's neglected playfulness his uses of irony, paradox, and parody it traces with sparkling wit and elegance Pater's relations to poetry from Baudelaire to Ashbery; to fiction from Hugo and Flaubert to Virginia Woolf and Nabokov. Pater's role in the history of modern criticism from Hazlitt and Gautier to Eliot, Berenson, Greenberg, and Clark is also considered, as is his influence on detective fiction and the related discipline of connoisseurship. We see here that Pater's historical definition of the Renaissance gradually became a metaphor of cultural renewal in the writing of the modernists. Pater's place in the tradition of "art history and criticism as literature" from Vasari through contemporary art-historical scholarship is especially emphasized, and attention is paid to the ways in which Pater has shaped our current historical conception of the Renaissance."
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Physical description: xiv, 214 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index. Subjects: Pater, Walter 1839-1894. Studies in the history of the Renaissance; Pater, Walter 1839-1894 Criticism and interpretation; Arts, Renaissance. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 1987. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 214 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. xiv, 214pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or maroon cloth in jacket. As new. A detailed study of Walter Pater's book, The Renaissance examining the literary traditions to which it belongs: poetry, fiction, history and criticism.
