Preview: The Picturesque

Pictures of Rydal Lower Falls
The "Claude Glass"

Narration vs. Description

Svetlana Alpers, "Describe or Narrate? A Problem in Realistic Representation," New Literary History 8 (1976): 15-41

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. William R. Trask (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1953)