Pater's Portraits

Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description. Pater is rarely vivid and firsthand in his fiction...

Fuld beskrivelse

Saved in:
Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
Fag:
Online adgang:ONIX_20220715_9781421432519_637
Tags: Tilføj Tag
Ingen Tags, Vær først til at tagge denne postø!
_version_ 1869516255474483200
author Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
author_browse Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
author_facet Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
author_sort Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description. Pater is rarely vivid and firsthand in his fiction; he tends instead toward exposition. Monsman's emphasis in Pater's Portraits is "tracing out" the conscious artistic structure of Pater's fiction. The scope of Pater's writings comprises nothing less than Western culture itself; its subject is all that man has written, thought, said, sung, hoped, or prayed as a civilized creature over two and one-half millennia. Pater's success in handling such panoply is attributable to his discovery of a coherent pattern by which art, religion, and life can be organized. Monsman aims to discover in Pater's fiction the use of old scientific-religious patterns of myth to explain moments of religious and cultural awakening, to reveal the way in which one man arrived at a credo that would answer to the desolation of life and culture.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-88890
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2022
publishDateRange 2022
publishDateSort 2022
publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
publisherStr Johns Hopkins University Press
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-888902024-04-08T20:09:52Z Pater's Portraits Monsman, Gerald Cornelius Religion & science bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAM Religious issues & debates::HRAM3 Religion & science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM3 Religion and science Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description. Pater is rarely vivid and firsthand in his fiction; he tends instead toward exposition. Monsman's emphasis in Pater's Portraits is "tracing out" the conscious artistic structure of Pater's fiction. The scope of Pater's writings comprises nothing less than Western culture itself; its subject is all that man has written, thought, said, sung, hoped, or prayed as a civilized creature over two and one-half millennia. Pater's success in handling such panoply is attributable to his discovery of a coherent pattern by which art, religion, and life can be organized. Monsman aims to discover in Pater's fiction the use of old scientific-religious patterns of myth to explain moments of religious and cultural awakening, to reveal the way in which one man arrived at a credo that would answer to the desolation of life and culture. 2022-07-15T15:15:58Z 2022-07-15T15:15:58Z 2019 book ONIX_20220715_9781421432519_637 9781421432519 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88890 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68453 Johns Hopkins University Press 10.1353/book.68453 10.1353/book.68453 1f9b1002-ec35-4fcf-94be-32cfd0a1dfd3 9781421432519 248 open access
spellingShingle Religion & science
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAM Religious issues & debates::HRAM3 Religion & science
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM3 Religion and science
Monsman, Gerald Cornelius
Pater's Portraits
title Pater's Portraits
title_full Pater's Portraits
title_fullStr Pater's Portraits
title_full_unstemmed Pater's Portraits
title_short Pater's Portraits
title_sort pater s portraits
topic Religion & science
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAM Religious issues & debates::HRAM3 Religion & science
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM3 Religion and science
topic_facet Religion & science
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAM Religious issues & debates::HRAM3 Religion & science
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM3 Religion and science
url ONIX_20220715_9781421432519_637
work_keys_str_mv AT monsmangeraldcornelius patersportraits