Despite acute awareness of Walter Pater's interest in and use of literary, mythological, philosophical and artistic sources in his own writings, his reception of Dante Alighieri has not been investigated sufficiently yet. This article gives an overview of Pater's general interest in Dante, seen within the context of the reception of Dante's works in the Victorian period, but then focuses on Pater's early essay "Diaphaneite". Dante, it is argued, attracted Pater's attention for moral and aesthetic reasons. It is by examining the Dante's presence in Pater's texts, and particularly in "Diaphaneite", that we can find central clues to an understanding of Pater's concepts of beauty and culture. The figure of Beatrice is the embodiment of what Pater admired in Dante. Her figure reflects in interesting ways upon his style, his concept of the ideal diaphanous character, and gender questions.
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In the mid-1870s, Walter Pater wrote two essays on Greek mythology, "A Study of Dionysus" and "Demeter and Persephone", in which he wondered about the relevance of Greek myths to the modern mind and advocated empathy with the primitive mind. In these two essays, he explains his method of composition as one of selection, modification and even "refinement" of the material available to him and he chooses indeed certain aspects of those myths in order to emphasize their Dionysiac or their Chtonian elements. However, there is a notable tension between the Apollinian, hellenizing tendency which in these writings is expressed through his insistance on the plastic, "humanized" embodiments of these myths, and between his acknowledgment of darker elements. Pater in fact uses and appropriates these myths in order to deploy varying and opposed discourses centred on the respective figures of Dionysus and of Demeter while reasserting some of the controversial themes put forth in the earlier essays he collected in the Renaissance volume.
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In Walter Pater's seminal essay "The School of Giorgione" (1877), he formulated for the first and only time, a theory of art and aesthetic experience complete with its own title, observation and uses and which was modelled less on music than on its metaphor. In this article, I examine Pater's theory of "Anders-streben" in relation to the concept of synaesthesia and as a context for understanding the role, function and rhetorical style of "aesthetic criticism." For this was Pater's art and thus, certainly not exempt from the paradigm he formulated in "Giorgione."
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