Art, vision, and nineteenth-century realist drama : acts of seeing / Amy Holzapfel.

"Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that positioned theatre at the crux of...

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Main Author: Holzapfel, Amy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 32.
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505 0 |a Introduction: acts of seeing -- Scribe's actions of seeing -- Zola's tunnel vision -- Ibsen's ocular realism -- Strindberg's composites -- Hauptmann's lived perspective -- Conclusion: seeing realism. 
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