Realist vision

by Brooks, Peter

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Title Statements

Full title :Realist vision / Peter Brooks.

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, and its continuing force in James and modernists such as Woolf. He also considers the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as "photorealism" and "reality TV.""--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:255 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0300106807, 9780300106800, 9780300138962, 0300138962
oclc:ocm57342319
LC Classification:PR878.R4
Dewey Decimal:823/.80912

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?

Subjects

17.90 literature in relation with other… Caillebotte, Gustave Comparative literature -- English and F… Comparative literature -- French and En… Courbet, Gustave Criticism, interpretation, etc Engels Englisch English fiction English fiction -- History and criticis… Frankreich Frans Französisch French fiction French fiction -- History and criticism… Freud, Lucian Grossbritannien Kunst Letterkunde Literatur