Analog Fictions for the Digital Age : Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000
Julia. Breitbach
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House , 2012
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (250 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Photographic Reading of Literary Realism; 1: Photography in the Digital Age: Critical Contexts and the Question of Realism; 2: This Thing in the Text: Photography, Thing Theory, and the Return to Realism in Literature; 3: Liminal Realism: Don DeLillo, The Body Artist (2001); 4: Domestic Realism: Ali Smith, The Accidental (2005); 5: Poetic Realism: Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007); 6: Conclusion: The Way We Write Now- A Case for Realism(s); Works Cited; Index; Backcover. - Both realist, post-postmodernist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the legacy of analog photography in its recent digital incarnation depend on an aesthetics of trust and a sense of contingent referentiality. Julia Breitbach's innovative study demonstrates how current photographic discourse can be an illuminating critical idiom for the analysis of recent forms of literary realism, thus proposing a truly original photographic hermeneutics for literary study. Along with a thorough critical investigation of both fields, Breitbach offers a pioneering theoretical exploration of analog and
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| Emner | DeLillo, Don , 1936- : (NO-TrBIB)90111592
Ondaatje, Michael : Divisadero : (NO-TrBIB)90079032 Smith, Ali : The accidental : (NO-TrBIB)1080265 Fiction - History and criticism Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 1571135405. - 9781571135407
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