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

by Carolyn Williams

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801421519

ISBN13:9780801421518

Release Date:January 1990

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:290 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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