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1 online resource |
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European studies in North American literature and culture |
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European studies in North American literature and culture.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014) |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Literature and photography.
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Realism in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- General.
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Fiction
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Literature and photography
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Realism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781571138408 |
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1571138404 |
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