EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: \u201cConclusion\u201c to Studies in the History of the Renaissance<\/em> (728-30 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 728-29, how does Pater describe the \u201ctendency of modern thought\u201d? What examples does he provide of this tendency, and how does he enlist the language of scientific objectivity and discovery in his description?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 729, according to Pater, following Novalis, what is the \u201cservice\u201d of philosophy? How does this view differ from the aims of systemic philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel as we have discussed them in class?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 729-30, how does Pater the Oxford lecturer (he was a fellow of Oxford\u2019s Brasenose College from 1864 until his death in 1894) define \u201csuccess in life\u201d? Again, as in the first question, how and why does Pater employ the language of science to make his case? Finally, by way of inference, what kind of life would constitute failure<\/em> in the Paterian view?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 730, do you find Pater\u2019s final statements about art\u2019s place in the hierarchy of pleasure convincing in light of the previous remarks he has made about pleasure in his \u201cConclusion\u201d? Why might his \u201cConclusion\u201d have been considered misleading or morally suspect by some Victorian readers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. General question (not for presentations): what sort of audience do you think might find Pater\u2019s aesthetic program appealing and viable? How might it be said that Pater\u2019s program amounts to another Victorian withdrawal from the \u201cromantic project\u201d of transforming the public\u2019s taste and spiritual priorities? Do you think that would be a fair criticism? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. General question (not for presentations): if you are familiar with the whole of Pater\u2019s 1873 book Studies in the History of the Renaissance,<\/em> to what extent does the tone of the \u201cConclusion\u201d suit the statements about aesthetic criticism Pater makes in his \u201cPreface\u201d to the same work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WALTER PATER QUESTIONS FOR E256 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISMCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, FALL 2012 Assigned: \u201cConclusion\u201c to Studies in the History of the Renaissance (728-30 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8). \u201cConclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance\u201c 1. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[18],"class_list":["post-1170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cConclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance<\/em>\u201c<\/h3>\n\n\n\n