Aspects of Realism in Visual and Verbal Representations

• 作者: Tzu Yu Allison Lin
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: REALISM language VISUAL representation NARRATIVE
• 年，卷（期）: wxyysyjywb_2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 47-55
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: TP3

摘要

In this article,the author reads three literary texts—Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party,and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,in order to theorise two aspects of realism in terms of visual and verbal representations.The first aspect of realism would be through physical events and movements.The second one is through the thinking process of a character.The essential point of using realism to read a text is not to see how real the description of a figure or an object is.Rather,as the author would argue,realism is to be understood as the way in which life is true to a character’s condition.