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 Marius the Epicurean Information
126 words, approx. 1 pages
 Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the... 
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 Cineaste Marius.
01/01/1993: 562 words, approx. 2 pages Fanny (Orane Demazis) loves Marius (Pierre Fresnay) and Marius loves Fanny - thought not quite as much as she loves him, nor as much as he loves the sea. So the young sailor takes off on a five year voyage to the Orient,... summary from source:
New Criterion The new Epicureans.
09/01/2001: 8,103 words, approx. 27 pages In a famous passage at the beginning of Book II of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius talks of the pleasure of watching other people endure dangerous situations. As Dryden rendered the passage: 'Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore The rolling ship,...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
12,456 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Scott describes the plot of Marius the Epicurean and defends Pater against critics who, he contends, misread his appeal in “the central statement of his career.”
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Critical Essay by Jerome Bump
7,819 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Bump describes how Pater uses aural imagery and performatives in Marius the Epicurean to lead Marius to “the music of Logos” and “a fuller sense of human communication.”
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Critical Essay by J. H. Stape
5,289 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Stape examines E. M. Forster's debt to Pater, particularly as demonstrated in parallels between Marius the Epicurean and Forster's Maurice.
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