Spectacles of Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spectacles of Realism write by Margaret Cohen. This book was released on 1995. Spectacles of Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Spectacular Past
The Spectacular Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spectacular Past write by Maurice Samuels. This book was released on 2018-08-06. The Spectacular Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.
The Boundaries of Realism in World Literature
The Boundaries of Realism in World Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boundaries of Realism in World Literature write by Kornelije Kvas. This book was released on 2019-11-19. The Boundaries of Realism in World Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a valuable theoretical and critical contribution to the study of realism inworld literature. Proceeding from the mimetic theories of the era of antiquity, and proceeding to explore formalists, structuralists, theories of possible worlds, and theories of simulation, Kvas points to the fictionality of (mimetic) realism, to literature and art as the creation of new, fictional aesthetic worlds, even when—as in the case of realism—there is a programmatic and practical inclination of such art and literature toward the world of the historical and the social—the real in the original sense of the word. This study will enable readers to confront, in a new and dependable manner, the issues of literary realism and its digressions into magical realism.
Viewing Positions
Viewing Positions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viewing Positions write by Linda Williams. This book was released on 1995. Viewing Positions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On visual perception in film and human subjectivity
Aesthetic Realism
Aesthetic Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetic Realism write by Inês Morais. This book was released on 2019-05-13. Aesthetic Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic—in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature). Morais lucidly argues that art criticism, when referring to aesthetic properties, is referring not ultimately to the critic’s subjective reactions, but to genuine properties of the works. With a focus on contemporary discussion conducted in the analytic tradition, as well as on arguments by Hume and Kant, this book characterizes the debate in aesthetics and the philosophy of art concerning aesthetic realism, examining attacks on the objectivity of values, the ‘autonomy thesis’, and Hume’s sentimentalism. Considering and defusing scepticism concerning the significance of the ontological debate about aesthetic realism, Morais discusses two powerful attacks on aesthetic realism before defending the doctrine against them and providing a positive realist account of aesthetic properties.
