The Reception of Walter Pater in EuropeStephen Bann A&C Black, 2004 M01 1 - 295 pages Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater's critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, however, enthusiastic disciples such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the German-speaking world and Charles Du Bos in France, helped to fuel a growing awareness of his writings as central to the emergence of modernist literature. Translations of works like Imaginary Portraits, established his distinctive voice as an aesthetic critic and his novel, Marius the Epicurean, was enthusiastically received in Paris in the 1920s and published in Turin on the eve of the Second World War. This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Series Editor: Dr Elinor Shaffer: Institute of Germanic Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Contributors: Stefano Evangelista, University of Bristol Stephen Bann, University of Bristol Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre Benedicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble Wolfgang Iser Ulrike Stamm, Berlin Martina Lauster, University of Exeter Mihaly Szegedy-Maszak, Eotvos University, Budapest Martin Prochazka, Charles University, Prague Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Italian | 19 |
2 The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian Art Criticism 18941944 | 34 |
a General View | 62 |
French | 87 |
5 An untimely soul? Paters Academic Reception in France from the Early 1920s | 117 |
German | 142 |
Hofmannsthals Variations on a Paterian Theme | 152 |
Rudolf Borchardts Centenary Essay Walter Pater 1939 | 169 |
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