Realist vision / Peter Brooks.
Realist vision / Peter Brooks.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N823.8912/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Realism and representation -- Ch. 2. Balzac invents the nineteenth century -- Ch. 3. Dickens and nonrepresentation -- Ch. 4. Flaubert and the scandal of realism -- Ch. 5. Courbet's house of realism -- Ch. 6. George Eliot's delicate vessels -- Ch. 7. Zola's combustion chamber -- Ch. 8. Unreal...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2005.
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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 ea...
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Realist vision / Peter Brooks.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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Other version (online)
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N823.8912/3
Record Identifier
74VKmgkDWgmb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmgkDWgmb
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ISBN
0300106807 (cased) :
9780300106800 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0300106807 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780300106800 :
0300106807 :
9780300106800 (cased) :
DDC
809.912
823.80912
MMS ID
991020635429702626
