{"product_id":"transfigured-world-carolyn-williams-9780801421518","title":"Transfigured World: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransfigured World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. \u003c\/b\u003eCarolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice. Williams discusses the explicit and embedded narratives that play a crucial role in Pater's aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801421519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801421518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Carolyn Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47579608187135,"sku":"9780801421518","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c53ee7fe-4f95-4c46-9102-56d9d35e47b0.jpg?v=1763875377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transfigured-world-carolyn-williams-9780801421518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}