Raser questions criticism's predilection for a scientific discourse, arguing that aesthetic categories are better indicators of a text's literary qualities. Although aesthetics has claimed subjective pleasure as its sole criterion since the time of Kant, aesthetic judgments tend always to ground themselves in logic or reference. In art criticism, description serves as this ground and is no more productive than in Baudelaire's art criticism, where it leads to poetry.
| ISBN: | 9780807892381 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1989 |
| Author: | Timothy Raser |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism History of art Literary companions, book reviews and guides The arts: general issues Literary studies: general |