The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe

by Bann, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781441130402
• ISBN10: 1441130403
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Stephen Bann is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline: European Reception of Pater by Stefano Evangelista, University of Bristol; Introduction by Stephen Bann, University of Bristol; I Italian; 1. 'The Sterile Ascetic of Beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de siècle by Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia; 2. The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian art criticism (1894-1944) by Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna; 3. Pater's Reception in Italy by Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari; II French; 4. 'Influence occulte': The Reception of Pater's works in France before 1922 by Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre; 5. 'An untimely soul'? Pater's academic reception in France from the early 1920s by Benédicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble; III German; 6. A German View of Pater by Wolfgang Iser; 7. 'Time flowing and time suspended': Hoffmansthal's variations on a Paterian theme by Ulrike Stamm, Berlin; 8. The critic's critic: Rudolf Borchardt's Centenary essay 'Walter Pater' (1939) by Martina Lauster, University of ExeterIV Hungarian; 9. Pater in Hungary by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Eötvös University, Budapest V Czech; 10. Pater in Czech culture: Milos Marten's Essay on Marius the Epicurean (1911) by Martin Prochàzka, Charles University, PragueVI Polish; 11. 'Our "I" and History': The Polish Reception of Pater by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan; VII Portugese; 12. Fernando Pessoa and the reception of Pater in Portugal by Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon and Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto; VIII Catalan and Spanish; 13. War and Peace - Pater's part: Translations in 1930s and 1940s Spain by Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona; Bibliography; Index