Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature

by Wendy Steiner

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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 casual, 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226772306

ISBN13:9780226772301

Release Date:December 1991

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:225 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography

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