Walter Pater's Renaissance.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Guter Zustand / In good condition. - This highly original and learned book is the first to study in detail Walter Pater's The Renaissance and examine the literary traditions to which it belongs: poetry, fiction, history, and criticism. Exploring Pater's neglected playfulness � his uses of irony, paradox, and parody � it traces with sparkling wit and elegance Pater's relations to poetry from Baudelaire to Ashbery; to fiction from Hugo and Flaubert to Virginia Woolf and Nabokov. Pater's role in the history of modern criticism from Hazlitt and Gautier to Eliot, Berenson, Greenberg, and Clark is also considered, as is his influence on detective fiction and the related discipline of connoisseurship. We see here that Pater's historical definition of the Renaissance gradually became a metaphor of cultural renewal in the writing of the Modernists. Pater's place in the tradition of "art history and criticism as literature" � from Vasari through contemporary art- historical scholarship � is especially emphasized, and attention is paid to the ways in which Pater has shaped our current historical conception of the Renaissance. Barolsky shows that Pater's poetical writing and the poets who inspired him have influenced the stylistic, iconographie, and theoretical interpretations of particular works of art far more than art historians have previously recognized. His study is the first attempt to place Pater's accomplishment in relation to professional art history. Holding The Renaissance up as a model, Barolsky suggests that art history should be restored to the broader imaginative traditions of literature from which it descends. ISBN 9780271004365