Author : Peter Brooks
Release : 2008-10-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Realist Vision - 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 Realist Vision write by Peter Brooks. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Realist Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 considers also the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as “photorealism” and “reality TV.”