Latin poetry and the judgement of taste [[electronic resource] ] : an essay in aesthetics / / Charles Martindale

• Autore: Martindale Charles
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 871/.09001
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics, Modern; Latin poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Immanuel Kant and Aesthetic Judgement; 2. Content, Form, and Frame; 3. Distinguishing the Aesthetic: Politics and Art; 4. The Aesthetic Turn: Latin Poetry and Aesthetic Criticism; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the Critique of Judgement, remains of fundamental importance for the modern critic. He argues that the Kantian 'judgement of taste' is not formalist, and explores the relationship between the aesthetic and the political in our responses to art. Finally he urges the value of aestheticcriticism as pioneered by Walter Pater and others. The (mainly Latin) poems discussed are all translated, and the book will b
• Titolo autorizzato: Latin poetry and the judgement of taste
• ISBN: 0-19-921612-6; 1-280-75349-8; 9786610753499; 0-19-152887-0; 1-4356-1932-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996209792003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno