A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732 - Couverture souple

Zimbardo, Rose A

 
9780813155395: A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732

Synopsis

In this provocative study Rose Zimbardo examines a crucial revolution in aesthetics that took place in the late seventeenth century and that to this day dominates our response to literature. Although artists of that time continued to follow the precept """"imitate nature,"""" that nature no longer corresponds to the earlier understanding of the term. What had been in essence an allegorical mode came to be a literal one. Focusing on the drama of the period as an exemplary form, Zimbardo shows how it

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À propos de l'auteur

Rose A. Zimbardo is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita whose previous books include A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics, 1660-1732.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0813115906 ISBN 13 :  9780813115900
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986
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