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, 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."

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:1 online resource (255 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300127850, 0300127855, 1281729760, 9781281729767
oclc:ocn163575143
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

Comparative literature -- English and F… Comparative literature -- French and En… Criticism, interpretation, etc Engels English fiction English fiction -- History and criticis… Frans French fiction French fiction -- History and criticism… Kunst Letterkunde LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literary Criticism -- General Littérature comparée -- Anglaise et fra… Littérature comparée -- Française et an… Realism in literature Realisme (beeldende kunst) Realisme (letterkunde) Réalisme dans la littérature Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique. …