Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater

by Gerald Cornelius Monsman

Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description. Pater is rarely vivid and firsthand in his fiction; he tends instead toward exposition. Monsman's emphasis in Pater's Portraits is "tracing out" the conscious artistic structure of Pater's fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432498
• ISBN13: 9781421432496
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"