Criticism after Romanticism: 2. Art for Art's Sake. 3. Impressionism and Subjectivism

A lecture on the history of critical ideas and aesthetics after the heyday of Romanticism, during the Victorian period. The movement of Art for Art's sake is here presented with its French origins and an overview of the main ideas on poetics and aesthetics of its main representatives in the Anglophone sphere: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. This is followed by an account of Impressionist criticism.

Criticism after Romanticism:

2. Art for Art's Sake. 3. Impressionism and Subjectivism

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2801069

Number of Pages in PDF File: 11
Keywords: Criticism, Aesthetics, Art for Art's sake, Poetics, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde

eJournal Classifications (Date posted: June 30, 2016)

AARN Subject Matter eJournals      Cultural Anthropology eJournal - CMBO          AARN: Visual Anthropology, Media Studies, & Performance (Topic) - CMBO              AARN: Visual Anthropology & Media Studies (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      English & Commonwealth Literature eJournal - CMBO          LIT: Victorian Literature (Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Poetry & Poetics eJournal - CMBO

PRN Subject Matter eJournals      History of Western Philosophy eJournal - CMBO          PRN: 19th Century Philosophy (Topic) - CMBO

Criticism after Romanticism, 1: Moral criticism

 

—oOo—