Pictures of Romance: Form against Context in Painting and Literature - Softcover

Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature.

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Buchbeschreibung Original softcover. Zustand: Gut. XI, 218 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Price tags on binding, somewhat rubbed binding, slightly stained bottom edge, otherwise very good. / Preisschilder auf Einband, etwas beriebener Einband, leicht angeschmutzter Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut. - How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the literary romance. Romances violate the causal, temporal, and logical cohesiveness of realist novels, and they do so in part by depicting love as a state of suspension, a condition outside of time. Steiner argues that because Renaissance and post-Renaissance painting also represents a suspended moment of perception with "unnatural" clarity and compression of meaning, it readily serves the romance as a symbol of antirealism. Yet the atemporal-ity of stopped-action painting was actually an attempt to achieve pictorial realismthe way things "really" look. It is this paradox that interests Steiner: to signal their departure from realism, romances evoke the symbol of "realistic" visual artwork. Steiner explores this problem through analyses of Keats, Hawthorne, Joyce, and Picasso. She then examines a return to narrative conventions in visual art in the twentieth century, in the work of Lichtenstein and Warhol, and speculates on the fate of pictorial storytelling and the romance in postmodern art. An aesthetic fantasia of sorts, this study combines theory and analysis to illuminate an unexpected interconnection between literature and the visual arts. - Wendy Steiner is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Colors of Rhetoric, also published by the University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226772301 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 395. Artikel-Nr. 1184658

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