1st Edition
Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama Acts of Seeing
Introduction: Acts of Seeing 1. Scribe’s Actions of Seeing 2. Zola’s Tunnel Vision 3. Ibsen’s Ocular Realism 4. Strindberg’s Composites 5. Hauptmann’s Lived Perspective Conclusion: Seeing Realism
Biography
Amy Holzapfel is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Williams College, US.
"Holzapfel's new ways of seeing realism are interesting and add a valuable new layer to understanding of the dramatic form. Summing Up: Recommended." -- S. J. Blackstone, University of Victoria, CHOICE
"Grounding her impressive study of major realist playwrights in discussions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientific works on vision, painting trends, and early photography, Holzapfel argues that these playwrights "struggled to reveal . . . that seeing—and, by extension, knowing—are relative processes governed by the forces of a body moving in space and time," presenting readers with a thought-provoking book that combines her compelling arguments with reproductions of paintings and photographs that reveal connections between the visual arts and theatre." --Nevena Stojanovic, West Virginia University, Theatre Journal
