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Realist vision

By Peter Brooks

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0300106807, 9780300106800
LCC
PR878.R4 B76 2005
Google Books ID
CnbrjsR86gYC
Open Library ID
OL3300461M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3039180 bytes)
Pages
268\268
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world “as it is.” Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project.Centering each chapter on a single novel or group of paintings, Brooks examines the “invention” of realism beginning with Balzac and Dickens, its apogee in the work of such as Flaubert, Eliot, and Zola, and its continuing force in James and modernists such as Woolf. He considers also the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as “photorealism” and “reality TV.”

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