Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature

by Wendy Steiner

Book Overview

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"