TY - JOUR
AU - SCHAPER, EVA
AB - eludes the novel from the fine arts though chapter, '11 "Dramaturg" dell'Aufklarung', admitting, for instance, that Flaubert, in appropriately transposing all previously writing Madame Bovary, made beauty his developed major themes into the key of chief aim.) drama, and restating them in terms of the On the whole this book seems to me theatre as the stage on which the artist fully meets his public of consumers, critics less valuable and stimulating than its fore- and philosophical experts. The themes here runner, the Introduction mix arts du beau. It remains however an elegant and lucid running together include the search for Reason sub specie poesis, the discovery of exposition, covering the whole field of the the historical dimension, the problem of major arts with a thoroughness and a grasp of their essentials which few writers can 'Art* and 'the arts', the significance of literary genres, and the philosophers' atti- command. tude to the transformation of general VIVIENNE MY1NE poetics into an autonomous critical dis- University College oj Swansea cipline. EVA SCHAPER University of Glasgow Filosofi Illuministi e 'Ragion Poetica'. (La Nascita dell'Estetica.) B y MARIO BENVENU- TO. Istituto della Stampa. Naples. 1964. Leonardo, Descartes, Max Weber. By KARL pp. 
TI - BOOK REVIEWS
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/bjaesthetics/5.4.406-a
DA - 1965-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-ymMTXUOGF0
SP - 406-a
EP - 406
VL - 5
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -