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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Walter Pater"”.
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Walter Pater and the Reality of Language
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Sex, aesthetics, and modernity in the British romance of Italy, 1870-1914
… Victorian and Edwardian writers—particularly Walter Pater, J. A. Symonds, Vernon Lee, and E. M. Forster—used narratives about travel to Italy in order to articulate non-normative sexualities in terms of the foreign, the anachronistic, and the southern. In this study, I examine a set of texts …
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… my project describes how the visual languages of Walter Pater, Michael Field, H.D., D. H. Lawrence, and Mina Loy work to capture the opaque impersonality of the subject---to represent impersonality as the very condition of personality---without indulging in an Eliotic dream of escape from the …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… E. B. Tylor influence what Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater debate as “the pagan sentiment.” The rest of the project concerns forms of what I call “pagan affectations,” authorial personae which cultivate counter-secular, pagan modes of subjectivity that make room for kinds of feelings such as …
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The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self
… model for writing advanced and practiced by Walter Pater, my thesis proposes the aphorism as a central tool in this rupture, asserting a hardening of selfhood’s integrity in the face of such social and environmental claims as might be made on it. My thesis foregrounds the way in which …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… Strauss, Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. One effect of the limits of language was on religious belief itself, specifically as pertains to intelligent design (independently of questions of whether the belief is correct). Here, because people found it …
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The Complete Bentham: Rationality's Afterlife in Victorian Literature
… and necrophilic acts joins the aestheticism of Walter Pater in promoting pleasures that belong, not to the reproductive future of the bourgeois family, but rather “give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.” Taken as a whole, my …