The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe

by Stephen Bann (Editor), Elinor Shaffer (Editor)

Overview

This volume is part of a series of texts that examines the ways selected British authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, and reviewed in continental Europe in order to understand the dissemination of ideas and texts. The reception of Pater is a fruitful study because the patterns of response closely follow the development of European national cultures, particularly their response to modernism. This collection addresses Pater's reception in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Spain. Bann (history of art, U. of Bristol) introduces the papers with an overview of Pater's legacy and a discussion of the conflation of Pater's work with that of John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. The volume includes a list of Pater's essays and a timeline of his European reception. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826468468
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/28/2005
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Stephen Bann is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline: European Reception of Pater by Stefano Evangelista, University of Bristol; Introduction by Stephen Bann, University of Bristol; I Italian; 1. 'The Sterile Ascetic of Beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de siècle by Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia; 2. The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian art criticism (1894-1944) by Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna; 3. Pater's Reception in Italy by Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari; II French; 4. 'Influence occulte': The Reception of Pater's works in France before 1922 by Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre; 5. 'An untimely soul'? Pater's academic reception in France from the early 1920s by Benédicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble; III German; 6. A German View of Pater by Wolfgang Iser; 7. 'Time flowing and time suspended': Hoffmansthal's variations on a Paterian theme by Ulrike Stamm, Berlin; 8. The critic's critic: Rudolf Borchardt's Centenary essay 'Walter Pater' (1939) by Martina Lauster, University of ExeterIV Hungarian; 9. Pater in Hungary by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Eötvös University, Budapest V Czech; 10. Pater in Czech culture: Milos Marten's Essay on Marius the Epicurean (1911) by Martin Prochàzka, Charles University, PragueVI Polish; 11. 'Our "I" and History': The Polish Reception of Pater by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan; VII Portugese; 12. Fernando Pessoa and the reception of Pater in Portugal by Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon and Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto; VIII Catalan and Spanish; 13. War and Peace - Pater's part: Translations in 1930s and 1940s Spain by Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona; Bibliography; Index

Editorial Reviews

"if your aim is to understand why he appealed and appeals to many diverse readers in many European languages, then you will find the book immensely illuminating...collectively [these essays] reveal much about the complex process in which a grand reputation is established."--,

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