A01=Lesley Sharpe
Aesthetic Essays
Aesthetic Speculation
Art
Author_Lesley Sharpe
Beauty
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Critical and Political Change
Eighteenth Century
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Modern Ideas
Naive
Play
Schiller
Semblance
Sentimental
Product details
- ISBN 9781571130587
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 1995
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.
Dr Sharpe's book is the first study devoted to tracing the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works and deal with the problems they present. Surveying Anglo-American as well as German-language criticism, she illuminates the impact of critical and political change on their evaluation.
