| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Realism and representation -- Balzac invents the nineteenth century -- Dickens and nonrepresentation -- Flaubert and the scandal of realism -- Courbet's house of realism -- George Eliot's delicate vessels -- Zola's combustion chamber -- Unreal city : Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing -- Manet, Caillebotte, and modern life -- Henry James's turn of the novel -- Modernism and realism : Joyce, Proust, Woolf -- The future of reality? |
| Summary |
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, 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." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Realism in literature.
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Comparative literature -- English and French
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Comparative literature -- French and English
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Comparative literature -- English and French
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Comparative literature -- French and English
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English fiction
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French fiction
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Realism in literature
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Letterkunde.
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Kunst.
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Engels.
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Frans.
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Realisme (letterkunde)
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Realisme (beeldende kunst)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300127850 |
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0300127855 |
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1281729760 |
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9781281729767 |
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