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Her critical works include Arnold Bennett Himself, Henry James (1916), Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews, and The Court and the Castle (1957), a study of political and religious ideas in imaginative literature. In 1949, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
1 de feb. de 2012 · The Strange Necessity is not an answer of what is art, but a way of aesthetic thinking—a synthesis of emotional and critical thinking across all artistic forms and their pursuit. –Cary Loren, revised 2012. Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity (Doubleday, New York, 1928) p.7. The Strange Necessity, p. 210-211
Her critical works include Arnold Bennett Himself, Henry James (1916), Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews, and The Court and the Castle (1957), a study of political and religious ideas in imaginative literature. In 1949, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
1 de ene. de 1987 · The strange necessity is man's desire for aesthetic experience as both analysis and synthesis. Dame Rebecca West describes this desire as manifesting itself in a function which is both internal and external to man--a prescient forerunner of the internet (such as Tilich and the noosphere).
The Aesthetic Relation in uThe Strange Necessity" The main essay from which West's volume The Strange Necessity takes its title has often been misrecognized as a review of Joyce's Ulysses. In fact, West's essay, published six years after Ulysses, considers several of Joyce's works as a way to pose and answer larger questions about aesthetic experi
The strange necessity is the impulse to create art. It has to be strong enough that the presumptively male proto-artist who first inked animal hunts on cave walls forsook the chance to “wanton his woman” at the command of the instinct to create rather than procreate.
21 de dic. de 2010 · In this intellectually challenging collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art’s value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history “The Strange Necessity,” one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West’s quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only ...
