Title & Author:

Photo-textualities : reading photographs and literature / edited by Marsha Bryant.

Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1996.

Description:

164 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Photography and the museum of Rome in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Timothy Sweet -- Photography, time, and the surrealist sensibility / Marja Warehime -- Photographs in biographies : Joyce, voyeurism, and the "real" Nora Barnacle / Stephen Watt -- Lost objects : photography, fiction, and mourning / Corey K. Creekmur -- The alternative vision : Lewis Hine's Men at work and the dominant culture / Kevin G. Barnhurst -- Auden and the "Arctic stare" : documentary as public collage in Letters from Iceland / Marsha Bryant -- Demythologizing facts and photographs in Three Guineas / Julia Duffy and Lloyd Davis -- Double-crossing frontiers : literature, photography, and the politics of displacement / Carol Shloss -- Afterwood : snapshots, the beginnings of photography / Robert B. Ray.

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.

ISBN:

0874135516 (alk. paper)
9780874135510 (alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature 20th century History and criticism.
Literature and photography English-speaking countries History 20th century.
American literature 20th century History and criticism.
Photography, Artistic.
Realism in literature.
Littérature anglaise 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie Anglophonie Histoire 20e siècle.
Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Photographie artistique.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
art photography.
20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other.
American literature.
English literature.
Literature and photography.
Englisch
Fotografie
Literatur
Aufsatzsammlung
Letterkunde.
Literature and photography Great Britain.
Literature and photography United States.
English-speaking countries.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and photography -- Great Britain -- History -20th century
Literature and photography -- United States -- History -20th century
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Photography, Artistic -- History and criticism

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Bryant, Marsha, 1960-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193526
Call No.: PR478.P45.P46 (ID:97-B4577)
Status: Available