Renaissance Realism

Narrative Images in Literature and Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925958-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

This book questions the assumption of a single realism, the continuous realism of novels. Many suppose that narrative before the novel either looked forward to it or was medieval and allegorical, and compare the introduction of single-point perspective with the rise of the novel. But continuous realism did not arise as soon as perspective was discovered. In actuality, a distinctive sort of Renaissance realism, with its own conventions, was practised from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Renaissance Realism surveys the history of perspective, showing that it only gradually came to dominate the western imagination and to become the default assumption for portrayal in the visual arts. Looked at in this way, correlates between literature and art emerge in the depiction of objects and events. Treatment of spatial arrangement and time sequences, for example, closely parallel 'simultaneous narration' in the visual arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fowler, Alastair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Illustrations

- Glossary

- Abbreviations

- 1: Objects in space

- 2: Events in time

- 3: Time sequences and schemes

- 4: Narrative assumptions

- 5: Engaged and disengaged spectators

- 6: Britomart and Busirane

- 7: Shakespeare's realism

- 8: Conclusion

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Alastair Fowler is Emeritus Professor, University of Edinburgh.