Author: Steiner, Wendy
Title: Pictures of Romance. Form against Context in Painting and Literature
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xi, 218 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Pictorial Narrativity; "As Long as Eyes Can See and Beauty Reigns": The Visual Arts in Romance; Empowering the Perceiver: Keats; Virgins, Copyists, and the Gentle Reader: Hawthorne; A Renaissance- Modernist Dalliance: Joyce & Picasso; Divide & Narrate: Seurat, Warhol, and Lichtenstein.

Keywords: Literary criticism, Art history, Aesthetics, Ut pictura poesis, Narrative theory, Romance, , ,