European Studies in English Literature

The Aesthetic Moment

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Wolfgang Iser's study of Walter Pater (1839 94) was first published in German in 1960. It places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major exponents were Hegel and Coleridge, at the same time showing how Pater differed crucially from these thinkers to become representative of a late Victorian culture critically poised in transition between Romanticism and Modernism. Pater's new definitions of 'beauty' and 'style' in art, his doctrine of 'art for art's sake', his preoccupation with aesthetic existence, his fascination with periods of balance and historical transition are seen in the light of his scepticism towards all systematisation and his view of art as countering human finiteness by capturing the intensity of the moment. This important book, which remains as illuminating now as when it first appeared, will interest those interested in philosophy and aesthetics and Pater specialists alike."

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Foreword
Introduction
Pater Criticism
Historical Preliminaries
Art as creation
Art as mimesis
Autonomous Art
The Starting Point
Scepticism
The essay
Defining human existence
Expression
Defining Art
'Art for art's sake'
Impressionism
Style
The Problem of Orientation
Beauty
'Postscript'
Art and History
What Is History?
Hegelian schematism
Historicity
'House Beautiful'
The Limits of Historical Legitimation
Plato and Platonism
Glaston de Latour
Art and Myth
The Ancient Gods
Cult and ritual
'The myth of Demeter and Persephone'
'A study of Dionysis'
The Limits of Mythical Legitimation
'Apollo in Picardy'
Pater and Nietzche
The Aesthetic Existence
Marius the Epicurean
The form
The problem
Imaginary Portraits
The form
'A Prince of Court Painters'
Denys l'Auxerrois'
'Sebastian van Storck'
'Duke Carl of Rosenmold'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Biographical addendum
Index of names
Index of subjects
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