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Realist Vision

by Peter Brooks
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Synopsis

A lively and distinctive look at realism in great modern books and art

About the Author, Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University.  He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, among them Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture; Law’s Stories; and The Melodramatic Imagination, which are available from Yale University Press.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780300106800

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Henry James Goes to Paris
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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
The Melodramatic Imagination
The Melodramatic Imagination
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove
Body Work
Body Work
History Painting and Narrative Delacroix's Moments
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