Aristotle and Modernism: Aesthetic Affinities of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf Tapa dura - 2008

Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. First Edition. Cloth. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book This book 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: where as 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' solution to a 'synchronic' problem - the debate about the Modern, reflected in the claims and counter… Leer más

Sussex Academic Press, 2008-08-22. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked . 8x6x0. Sharp. Nearly new. No dust jacket, as issued. 152 pp.

Hardback. New. 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.

Sussex Academic Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 152 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.