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'.
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'A fine new book ... An excellent book.' --James Wood, New Republic
'The readings are always acute and suggestive.' --Elizabeth Helsinger, Studies in English Literature
'With Realist Vision, Peter Brooks directs his gaze at some of the most remarkable works of realism and offers a spirited appreciation of the genre and its efforts to represent the truth of modern life in society ... Because Realist Vision was conceived as a lecture series, its chapters have a spoken quality that invites readers of differing expertise into them.' --Larry T. Shillock, Bloomsbury Review
'The readings are always acute and suggestive.' --Elizabeth Helsinger, Studies in English Literature
'With Realist Vision, Peter Brooks directs his gaze at some of the most remarkable works of realism and offers a spirited appreciation of the genre and its efforts to represent the truth of modern life in society ... Because Realist Vision was conceived as a lecture series, its chapters have a spoken quality that invites readers of differing expertise into them.' --Larry T. Shillock, Bloomsbury Review
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Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, among them Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture; Laws Stories; and The Melodramatic Imagination, which are available from Yale University Press.
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An excellent way to enter realist art and litterature
11 Jan 2007
By Casa Do Estoril Lda
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This is an excellent analysis of realism in the 19th century European painting and novel. The author shows a wide knowledge in several fields, allowing him to give a cult and wide overview of the topics covered. His several analysis of specific paintings and novels adds to the depth and leaves aside any fear that the reader may have of general and repeated ideas, so common in other books. It is refreshing to see an English-speaking author dealing with books in an idiom other than English (French in this case). Nevertheless, some references to other national realist oeuvres (Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Scandinavian...) would further enrich the book.
The only flaw of the book - its loose structure, without helpful overview of the subject and a clear conclusion - may also be seen as an advantage of allowing the author a more wandering and enriching reflexion than one can find in a lot of academic-burocratic studies.
The book includes 36 figures. I plan to quote this book in my academic research and recommend it to students in university.
Eduardo Cintra Torres
The only flaw of the book - its loose structure, without helpful overview of the subject and a clear conclusion - may also be seen as an advantage of allowing the author a more wandering and enriching reflexion than one can find in a lot of academic-burocratic studies.
The book includes 36 figures. I plan to quote this book in my academic research and recommend it to students in university.
Eduardo Cintra Torres
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By Janis C. Stair
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As an art history student, I found this book very helpful in writing a paper on realism in art and literature in late nineteenth century Paris. Professor Brooks writes in a beautiful, concise way; my understanding of a fascinating subject and time period has been greatly increased.
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