{"product_id":"paters-portraits","title":"Pater's Portraits","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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 \u003ci\u003ePater's Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e is \"tracing out\" the conscious artistic structure of Pater's fiction. The scope of Pater's writings comprises nothing less than Western culture itself; its subject is all that man has written, thought, said, sung, hoped, or prayed as a civilized creature over two and one-half millennia. Pater's success in handling such panoply is attributable to his discovery of a coherent pattern by which art, religion, and life can be organized. Monsman aims to discover in Pater's fiction the use of old scientific-religious patterns of myth to explain moments of religious and cultural awakening, to reveal the way in which one man arrived at a credo that would answer to the desolation of life and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54226579882328,"sku":"9781421432496","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421432496__6774284bb6c5a_56b423e9-914c-49bf-8c7d-1a0b1bb9e109.jpg?v=1741156476","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/paters-portraits","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}