Walter Pater: The Aesthetic Moment

Abstract

Foreword Part I. Introduction Section 1. Pater Criticism Section 2. Historical Preliminaries: 1. Art as creation 2. Art as mimesis Part II. Autonomous Art Section 3. The Starting Point: 1. Scepticism 2. The essay 3. Defining human existence 4. Expression Section 4. Defining Art: 1. 'Art for art's sake' 2. Impressionism 3. Style Section 5. The Problem of Orientation: 1. Beauty 2. 'Postscript' Part III. Art and History Section 6. What Is History?: 1. Hegelian schematism 2. Historicity 3. 'House Beautiful' Section 7. The Limits of Historical Legitimation: 1. Plato and Platonism 2. Glaston de Latour Part IV. Art and Myth Section 8. The Ancient Gods: 1. Cult and ritual 2. 'The myth of Demeter and Persephone' 3. 'A study of Dionysis' Section 9. The Limits of Mythical Legitimation: 1. 'Apollo in Picardy' 2. Pater and Nietzche Part V. The Aesthetic Existence Section 10. Marius the Epicurean: 1. The form 2. The problem Section 11. Imaginary Portraits: 1. The form 2. 'A Prince of Court Painters' 3. Denys l'Auxerrois' 4. 'Sebastian van Storck' 5. 'Duke Carl of Rosenmold' Conclusion Notes Bibliography Biographical addendum Index of names Index of subjects.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 34 citations exist upstream.