| Transfigured World: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz Contributor(s): Williams, Carolyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801421519 ISBN-13: 9780801421518 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 824.8 |
| LCCN: 89-42883 |
| Series: American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.36 lbs) 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice. Williams discusses the explicit and embedded narratives that play a crucial role in Pater's aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Carolyn: - Carolyn Williams is Chair and Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the author most recently of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. |