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Aristotle and Modernism: Aesthetic Affinities of T S Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Virginia Woolf
Edna Rosenthal
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Hardback. Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, and others. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through conceptual shifts. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of these three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs: whereas Eliot saw himself as a classicist modernist, Stevens and Woolf shared a marked anti-classicist stance. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through specific conceptual shifts. The main feature of the book is its originality of approach, which seeks a 'diachronic' ... Read more
Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of these three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs: whereas Eliot saw himself as a classicist modernist, Stevens and Woolf shared a marked anti-classicist stance. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through specific conceptual shifts. The main feature of the book is its originality of approach, which seeks a 'diachronic' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191719
SKU
V9781845191719
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About Edna Rosenthal
Edna G Rosenthal completed her MPhil in modern literature at St Antony's College, Oxford (1978), and her PhD at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2004). She teaches English at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, and is currently associate editor of The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms.
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