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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A lively and distinctive look at realism in great modern books and art​</b><br /><br /><i>Realist Vision </i>explores<i></i>the claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense int<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Brooks makes these authors come alive. Reading about them and their work is like reading a good novel. This is a culminating text by a real pro, in the best sense of the word. It comes from the heart, but there are years of scholarly work and critical engagement behind it."--Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts<br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, among them <i>Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture</i>; <i>Law's Stories</i>; and <i>The Melodramatic Imagination</i>, which are available from Yale University Press.</p>

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