Pictures of Romance
Subtitle: Form against Context in Painting and Literature
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 23, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780226772295
Subjects: Literary theory; Fine Arts (Specific Aspects); Literature (Specific Aspects); Art; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Criticism; Art / Criticism; Art and literature; History and criticism; Love stories; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
First sentence: This book interweaves two stories, one about painting (chapters 1 and 6) and the other about the literary romance (chapters 2 through 5).