Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice

In Walter Pater’s seminal essay ‘The School of Giorgione’ (1877), he formulated for the first and only time, a theory of art and aesthetic experience complete with its own title, observation and uses and which was modelled less on music than on its metaphor. In this article, I examine Pater’s theory...

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Main Author: Margaux Poueymirou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2008-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/7791
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description In Walter Pater’s seminal essay ‘The School of Giorgione’ (1877), he formulated for the first and only time, a theory of art and aesthetic experience complete with its own title, observation and uses and which was modelled less on music than on its metaphor. In this article, I examine Pater’s theory of ‘Anders-streben’ in relation to the concept of synaesthesia and as a context for understanding the role, function and rhetorical style of ‘aesthetic criticism.’ For this was Pater’s art and thus, certainly not exempt from the paradigm he formulated in ‘Giorgione.’
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