Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities) (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) - Hardcover

Albright, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300186622 ISBN 13: 9780300186628

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

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[ Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities By ( Author ) Mar-2014 Hardcover

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Review:

"This marvelous book--an instant classic--excites, inspires, provokes, and (when provocation does not suit) gently coaxes the reader into accepting its claims. Albright has obviously mulled over the relationships among the literary, visual, and musical arts for many years, yet the result of his meditation is surprisingly fresh."--Simon Morrison, Princeton University--Simon Morrison

"In this dazzlingly wide-ranging book, Daniel Albright explores the specificities of literature, painting, and music. But far from seeing the arts as locked into their differences, he mounts a brilliant, intricate argument for their mutual translatability and ultimate unity."-- Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
--Jahan Ramazani

"With astonishing range, quicksilver riffs, and aphorisms to die for, Daniel Albright creates nothing less than a pagan poetics for the modern age. Panaesthetics is Pan's aesthetic, an endlessly musical sensibility sublimely at home in a world where Art is everything and everything is Art."-- Scott Burnham, author of Mozart's Grace--Scott Burnham

"In exploring whether there are many different arts, or if there is one that variously takes different forms, Daniel Albright brilliantly shows how the coming-together and splitting-asunder of artistic media is one of the great stories in the intellectual history of the West."--Pamela Rosenberg, American Academy in Berlin
--Pamela Rosenberg

"Challenging and pleasurable . . . Albright's affecting prose produces synaesthetic sensations in the reader . . . Albright posits a unique and complex theory . . . forging a new and unique form of art criticism in the process."--Anna Gallagher-Ross, C Magazine--Anna Gallagher-Ross "C Magazine "

About the Author:

Daniel Albright is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, and he teaches in the Comparative Literature, English, and Music departments. He is the author of sixteen previous books. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300186622
• ISBN 13: 9780300186628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320