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A mirror to nature : transformations in drama and aesthetics, 1660-1732 /
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 n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1986]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 expe. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813164984 0813164982 0813115906 9780813115900 |