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A Poetics of Art Criticism by Timothy Raser

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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.

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A Poetics of Art Criticism by Timothy Raser

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.
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ISBN 13 9780807892381
ISBN 10 0807892386
Title A Poetics of Art Criticism
Author Timothy Raser
Series North Carolina Studies In The Romance Languages And Literatures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Year published 1989-01-30
Number of pages 202
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