Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism: Selected Essays of Arnold IsenbergUniversity of Chicago Press, 1988 M03 25 - 362 pages "These sixteen essays by Arnold Isenberg "bring wide-ranging connoiseurship, intricate analysis, and epigrammatic literacy to bear on a number of glib and fuzzy oppositions between form and content, description and interpretation, perception and meaning, technique and substance, and belief and expression, articulating provocative strategies for illuminating the canon of the arts and the organ of criticism. . . . Any thoughtful lover of the arts could read this book with profit and inspiration."—Choice |
Contents
Formalism | 22 |
The Problem of Belief | 87 |
On Defining Metaphor | 105 |
Critical Communication | 156 |
Pretentious as an Aesthetic Predicate | 172 |
Superlatives | 184 |
Some Problems of Interpretation | 199 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute music aesthetic experience aesthetic object aestheticians analysis argument Aristotle artist assertion beauty believe called character claim color comparative comparison concepts consider Cordelia criticism Croce definition deontologist difference distinction E. M. W. Tillyard effect elements ethical example exist explain expression fact false feeling formalist function Henry James idea imagine imitation important interest interpretation Isenberg judgment Kenneth Burke kind language Lear's logical lying meaning ment metaphor method mind moral motive nature opinion painters painting passage perception perhaps person philosophers picture Plato play poem poet poetry pretentious pride principle problem program music proposition psychology question R. G. Collingwood reader reason resemblance rience Roger Fry seems sense sentence shame sound speak statement subject matter superlatives suppose T. S. Eliot theory thing thought tion Titian true truth understand Virginia Woolf whole words writing wrong