Walter Pater

Broschiertes Buch

The Works of Walter Pater

Beschreibung

Walter Pater (1839â 94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Volume 2 of his collected works of 1900â 1 is the first of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction, set in the late Roman Empire.

Autor

Walter Pater (1839-1894), was an English critic, essayist, and humanist who argued that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose. "Art for art's sake" is a core principle of Aestheticism, the movement he helped found. Pater's exquisite writing style and bold ideas exerted a powerful influence on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens and has had lasting influence on the field of art criticism.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781108034241
• ISBN-10: 1108034241
• Artikelnr.: 33875165