Name: The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (en Inglés)
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Author: Martin C. Battestin
ISBN: 9780198120520

portada The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Virginia Press

Autor

Martin C. Battestin

Año

1983

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

446

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780198120520

N° edición

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Historia y crítica literaria

The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (en Inglés)

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By exploring the relationship between the idea of Nature and the idea of Art in the period from 1660-1760, this study attempts to account for the distinctive quality of the 'Augustan mode' in literature in arts. Before what Pope envisioned as the apocalypse of modernism occurred, artists and aestheticians shared the faith of Newton and the divines in providential order, and, refining the neoclassical doctrine of mimesis, they expressed that faith in theory and practice. In shaping his own ideal forms, the Augustan artist took as paradigm the fiat of Genesis. Showing that theories of 'pure form' in the period rest upon the mutually dependent assumptions of ethnology and aesthetics, Professor Battestin first discusses the ways in which ideas of Nature's harmony, symmetry, and variety affected the doctrine of mimesis in the abstract arts of music, architecture, and gardening. Against the background he next examines the idea of Art and the relationship between form and meaning in the poetry of Pope and Gay and the fiction of Fielding and Godlsmith. THe final chapter, focusing on the deliberate violation of these formal principles in A Tale of Tub and Tristram Shandy, distinguishes between the Augustan and Modern modes by contrasting Swift's implicit acceptance of the ideals of his age with Sterne's sense that they are no logner relevant either to life or to art.