SOURCE: “‘Definite History and Dogmatic Interpretation’: The ‘White-nights’ of Pater's Marius the Epicurean,” in Criticism, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring, 1984, pp. 171-91.
In the following essay, Monsman asserts that Pater's work contains many alternative possible meanings; its ambiguities, variations, and masks defy final meaning, he concludes.
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