Photo-textualities : reading photographs and literature

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Label

Photo-textualities : reading photographs and literature

Title remainder

reading photographs and literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Marsha Bryant

Contributor

• Bryant, Marsha, 1960-

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• American literature
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englisch
• English literature
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English-speaking countries
• Fotografie
• History
• Letterkunde
• Literatur
• Literature and photography
• Literature and photography -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
• Photographie
• Photography, Artistic
• Photography, Artistic
• Realism in literature
• Realism in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• This anthology investigates books that juxtapose photographs and written language (photo-texts), considering a variety of examples from America, Britain, Canada, and France. Ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun to Michael Ondaatje's postmodern novel Coming Through Slaughter and Edward Said's postdocumentary After the Last Sky, the contributors' analyses address photo-textuality's implications for representation and its cultural contexts. A truly interdisciplinary collection, Photo-Textualities features contributors who work in literary studies (English, romance languages), as well as contributors who work in media studies (film, graphic arts)
• Photo-Textualities invigorates critical inquiry with its range of literary and photographic genres, including photo-texts that elude genre classification. Besides documentary and biography, nonfiction literary genres include autobiography and travelogue. The range of photographic genres extends to landscapes, portraiture, documentary, tourist snapshots, and media images, as well as to the standard photo-textual forms of published album and photo-essay

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR478.P45

LC item number

P46 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography