From the Property of Being to the Aesthetic Object: the Study of Beauty in "Gottfried Künstler: A Mediæval Story" by Vita Sackville-West
Abstract
Vita Sackville-West was an English Modernist writer, poet and gardener. In her short narrative Gottfried Künstler: A Mediæval Story (1932), a skater-artist Gottfried loses his memory due to an accident on ice and, as a result, becomes some-body else. The aim of this article is to prove that the work explores the development of the philosophy of beauty: negating classic theories, according to which beauty is grounded in being or nature, the story heads towards the contemporary concept of the aesthetic object, saying that beauty stems from art. The analysis of the story is divided into three parts: the exploration of being, the study of nature, and the discussion of the concept of the aesthetic object.
Keywords:
beauty, short story, English literature, Vita Sackville-West, ModernismReferences
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