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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kentucky
Publication date
July 7, 2014
Pages
256
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780813155395
ISBN-10
0813155398
Dimensions
0 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Original list price
$35.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 moved from depicting a metaphysical reality of idea to portraying an inner reality of individual experience. But drama is constrained in expressing the inner experience since its medium is limited to human action. The novel arose to replace drama as the popular literary form, Zimbardo argues, because it could better and more freely convey man's inner world and thereby imitate the "new" nature.
The study concluded that the changes which took place in drama during this period and which led to the invention of the novel resulted not from any "change of heart" or sensibility but from a fundamental change in the understanding of the nature which art was thought to imitate. Neither the drama of the 1690s nor the early novel, Zimbardo finds, was in the least "sentimental."
A Mirror to Nature brings a new critical perspective to bear on literary developments at the end of the seventeenth centuryâone that must be considered by critics and historians of the period.
Focusing on the drama of the period as an exemplary form, Zimbardo shows how it moved from depicting a metaphysical reality of idea to portraying an inner reality of individual experience. But drama is constrained in expressing the inner experience since its medium is limited to human action. The novel arose to replace drama as the popular literary form, Zimbardo argues, because it could better and more freely convey man's inner world and thereby imitate the "new" nature.
The study concluded that the changes which took place in drama during this period and which led to the invention of the novel resulted not from any "change of heart" or sensibility but from a fundamental change in the understanding of the nature which art was thought to imitate. Neither the drama of the 1690s nor the early novel, Zimbardo finds, was in the least "sentimental."
A Mirror to Nature brings a new critical perspective to bear on literary developments at the end of the seventeenth centuryâone that must be considered by critics and historians of the period.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ Pr of Kentucky (September 1, 1986)
9780813115900 | details & prices | List price $25.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
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from Univ Pr of Kentucky (July 7, 2014); titled "A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732"
9780813155395 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $35.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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