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UNINA9910451789703321 |
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Autore |
Brooks Peter <1938-> |
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Titolo |
Realist vision [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Brooks |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005 |
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1-281-72976-0 |
9786611729769 |
0-300-12785-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Realism in literature |
French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Comparative literature - English and French |
Comparative literature - French and English |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Realism and Representation -- Chapter 2. Balzac Invents the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3. Dickens and Nonrepresentation -- Chapter 4. Flaubert and the Scandal of Realism -- Chapter 5. Courbet's House of Realism -- Chapter 6. George Eliot's Delicate Vessels -- Chapter 7. Zola's Combustion Chamber -- Chapter 8. Unreal City: Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing -- Chapter 9. Manet, Caillebotte, and Modern Life -- Chapter 10. Henry James's Turn of the Novel -- Chapter 11. Modernism and Realism: Joyce, Proust, Woolf -- Chapter 12. The Future of Reality? -- References and Bibliographical Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910797966903321 |
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Titolo |
Performance art in Ireland : a history / / edited by Áine Phillips |
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London : , : Live Art Development Agency |
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Bristol : , : Intellect, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Performance art - Ireland - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Timeline: Performance Art; Colour Images; Performing Political Acts: Performance Art in Northern Ireland: Ritual, Catharsis, and Transformation; Bbeyond and the Art of Participation; Dublin and Performance Art: Twenty Years of Action, 1970-1990; The Development of Performance and Sound Art in Cork; Polyphonic Resonance: Sound Art in Ireland; Timeline: Sound Art; Survey: Ireland South of the Border High Performance 1984 Issue 25; The Development of Irish Feminist Performance Art in The 1980s and The Early 1990s |
Developing Dialogues: Live Art and Femininity in Post-Conflict IrelandPerformance Art in Ireland in the New Millennium; Right Here Right Now; Fragments on the Performance Collective: Subject to Ongoing Change at the Galway Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland; Out of Ireland: Irish Performance Art Internationally; Index; Biographies; Acknowledgements; Copyright; Backcover |
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