Selected Writings of Walter Pater
Selected Writings of Walter Pater

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780231054812

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Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.

Pater's Portraits
Pater's Portraits

Author: Gerald Cornelius Monsman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1421432501

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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.

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence

Author: Robert Seiler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-01-05

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0192848313

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Imaginary Portraits' is volume 3 in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Pater's Imaginary Portraits are among some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature: portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops from Classical Greece to Medieval France, eighteenth-century Germany and modern England. Together, they constitute a remarkable testimony to Pater's profound understanding of centuries of cultural history, reworked in the0hybrid genre of the imaginary portrait as sophisticated portrait miniatures of minor characters touched and affected by major moments in European history. They question central issues of nationhood and belonging, a Pan-European cultural identity, and the fate of the individual in the face of collective history. As formative texts for Modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf, Pater's Imaginary Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.

Oscar Wilde in Context
Oscar Wilde in Context

Author: Kerry Powell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1107016134

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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Walter Pater
Walter Pater

Author: Laurel Brake

Publisher: Greensboro, NC : ELT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the mast recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a detailed bibliography, and offers a concise but challenging reappraisal of a writer's major work. Published in the U. K. by Northcote House in association with The British Council.

The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits
The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher: Collected Works of Walter Pate

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780198823438

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The Collected Works of Walter Pater preserves the integrity of Pater's revisions and arrangements of his writings, augments his uncollected essays and fiction, and brings together, for the first time, all of his literary journalism and academic studies, his extant correspondence, and transcriptions of his manuscripts One of the first two volumes in the Collected Works; the other is Gaston De Latour, edited by Gerald Monsman Textual variants reveal to the reader how and when Pater revised his text, and the patterns of his creative editorial decisions Key background information is coherently, and thoroughly, presented; all phrases and quotations in French, German, Greek, and Latin are translated Includes an overview of Pater's unique genre, its relation to the visual arts and to Victorian society, and the critical reception and influence of the Imaginary Portraits; a chronology of his life; a history of the book's publication; and a scholarly Appendix providing a historical context for the publication of Pater's last book, the Daniel Press edition of 'The Child in the House' A thorough index guides readers interested in Pater's prose as it relates to art history, ancient history, Victorian culture, and literary theory

Walter Pater
Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0748683585

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Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging moder