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Transfigured World: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz

Transfigured World: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz

Williams, Carolyn

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Series: American Culture

Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801421519
ISBN13: 9780801421518
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jan 18 1990
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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