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Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

By Alastair Fowler

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0199259585, 9780199259588
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25683713 bytes)
Pages
304\312
Time added
2024-10-31 14:32:31

Description

Early narratives have tended to be critiqued as novels, an approach that misses their distinctive Renaissance realism. Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative imagination after single-point perspective. The habit of an older, multi-point perspective long continued, accounting for "anachronism," discontinuous realism, "double time-schemes," and depiction of different moments as simultaneous.

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