Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art.
Drawing on the philosophies of art and aesthetics, including the work of Clive Bell, Susanne Langer, Denis Donoghue, Etienne Gilson and Peter Lamarque, I identify the principles of beauty most frequently associated with the literary arts and explore the means by which beauty is conveyed through lang...
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| author | Wang, Michelle Wanzheng. |
| author2 | Angela Anne Frattarola |
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| description | Drawing on the philosophies of art and aesthetics, including the work of Clive Bell, Susanne Langer, Denis Donoghue, Etienne Gilson and Peter Lamarque, I identify the principles of beauty most frequently associated with the literary arts and explore the means by which beauty is conveyed through language and form in Jose Saramago's novels, particularly in All the Names, The Cave and Death at Intervals. Four principles of beauty manifested repeatedly in literary works of art are artistic form, eloquent uses of language, the creation of a poetic illusion and claritas or radiance. In this thesis, I also argue for the crucial significance of an aesthetic response in approaching literature or fiction as art. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/462472019-12-10T14:17:54Z Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art. Wang, Michelle Wanzheng. Angela Anne Frattarola School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature Drawing on the philosophies of art and aesthetics, including the work of Clive Bell, Susanne Langer, Denis Donoghue, Etienne Gilson and Peter Lamarque, I identify the principles of beauty most frequently associated with the literary arts and explore the means by which beauty is conveyed through language and form in Jose Saramago's novels, particularly in All the Names, The Cave and Death at Intervals. Four principles of beauty manifested repeatedly in literary works of art are artistic form, eloquent uses of language, the creation of a poetic illusion and claritas or radiance. In this thesis, I also argue for the crucial significance of an aesthetic response in approaching literature or fiction as art. Master of Arts (HSS) 2011-07-08T04:48:33Z 2011-07-08T04:48:33Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46247 en 158 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art. |
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| title_short | Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art. |
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