Analog Fictions for the Digital Age : Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000 /

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 disc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Breitbach, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:European studies in North American literature and culture.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Literature and photography.
Realism in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
Fiction
Literature and photography
Realism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Item Description:Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781571138408
1571138404

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