A Writer's Classification of Writers and Their Work

Autor:	Frederick Philip Grove
Rok vydání:	1932
Předmět:	Literature History Unconscious mind business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) Conformity Harmony (Music) Nothing Perception Beauty Selection (linguistics) business media_common
Zdroj:	University of Toronto Quarterly. 1:236-253
ISSN:	1712-5278 0042-0247
DOI:	10.3138/utq.1.2.236
Popis:	Nothing is in itself either beautiful or ugly, but seeing makes it so. I believe it was Croce who first said that or something to the same effect. It is undoubtedly true that we see beauty to-day where two or three centuries ago few people saw anything but horror or ugliness. The Alps of Europe furnish a convenient example. Creative minds had to see and to interpret that beauty for us before we could see it. They saw harmonies where previous observers had seen confusion; they saw significances where previous observers had seen chaos; and mankind at large has learned from them. What they actually did was, of course, an act of interpretation. In other words, they arranged these mountain landscapes ir conformity to human predispositions: and lo, terror became awe; the desire to close one's eye became unconscious selection: the result was picturesque perception.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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