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Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

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Early narratives have tended to be critiqued as novels, an approach that misses their distinctive Renaissance realism. Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative imagination after single-point perspective. The habit of an older, multi-point perspective long continued, accounting for "anachronism," discontinuous realism, "double time-schemes," and depiction of different ...

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Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199259588

Hardcover