Pater and the Painterly: Imaginary Portraits

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Abstract

The article presents a literary criticism of Walter Pater's "Imaginary Portraits" which remained vibrant with a new French translation in 1930, a Castilian one in 1942 and two more Italian translations in 1944 and 1994. It focuses on 2 important aspects of his short fiction namely its contemporary reception in 1887 and his use of portraiture which hovers around the framed and the fluid. It notes how Pater asserts his mature omnipotence as a writer while crushing one young life after another.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEnglish Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Vol/bind56
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)343-54
Antal sider11
ISSN0013-8339
StatusUdgivet - jul. 2013

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Walter Pater
  • reception of Imaginary Portraits
  • Imaginary Portraits
  • aestheticism
  • type vs individual

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