Impressionistic Criticism: Internet Info.
“A kind of criticism that tries to convey what the critic subjectively feels and thinks about a work of art.”
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/Impressionistic_criticism.html
“Impressionistic criticism is the kind of criticism that restricts itself to describing the critic’s own subjective response to a literary work, rather than ascribing intrinsic qualities to it in the light of general principles. Walter Pater’s defence of such criticism, in the Preface to his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), was that
‘in aesthetic criticism the first step towards seeing one’s object as it really is, is to know one’s own impression as it really is, to discriminate it, to realise it distinctly’
. The most common kind of impressionistic criticism is found in theatre and book reviews: ‘I laughed all night’; ‘I couldn’t put it down’.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/impressionism-literature
“Impressionistic criticism concentrates on and revolves round individual reactions and individual sensitivity. [...] Impressionistic criticisn is neither rational nor logical. It has no worth in the field of knowledge nor in the field of emotion or sentiment.”
“…impressionistic criticism that is ruled by the persona; emotions that may have nothing to do with the work of art, though it may produce interpretations and translations that creates something new. In this instance, the impressionistic critic becomes an artist, creating new meanings and readings that were not present in the orginal artwork, and which is thereby lost in the process.”
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Walter Pater: http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/walter-horatio-pater
Oscar Wilde: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/
batman said,
September 9, 2008 @ 6:31 am
robin,
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