| Description |
viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Nathaniel Hawthorne and daguerreotypy : disinterested vision -- Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn : the frame of prevision -- Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis : envisioning "the other half" -- John Dos Passos and the Soviet cinema : separate frames of truth -- James Agee and Walker Evans : representing poverty during the Great Depression -- John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange : the surveillance of dissent -- Norman Mailer and combat photography : exposure under fire |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English American writers Influence of photography |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 289-302 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature and photography -- United States.
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Realism in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| LC no. |
86018070 |
| ISBN |
0195038932 (alk. paper) |
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9780195038934 (alk. paper) |
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