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

by Carolyn Williams

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