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Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

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I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. He...more

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Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value...more

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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in socie...more