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UNINA9910821555003321 |
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Autore |
Costelloe Timothy M. |
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Titolo |
The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / / Timothy M. Costelloe |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-23309-7 |
1-139-60968-8 |
1-139-62084-3 |
1-139-61154-2 |
1-107-25345-4 |
1-139-61526-2 |
1-139-62456-3 |
1-139-02339-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aesthetics, British - History |
Aesthetics, American - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics' -- Part I. The Age of Taste -- 1. Internal sense theorists -- 2. Imagination theorists -- 3. Associationist theorists -- Part II. The Age of Romanticism -- 4. The picturesque -- 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics -- 6. Victorian criticism -- Part III. The Age of Analysis -- 7. Theories of expression -- 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards. |
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The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The |
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Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought. |
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