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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1. Verfasser: Breitbach, Julia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Toward a photographic reading of literary realism
  • Photography in the digital age: critical contexts and the question of realism
  • This thing in the text: photography, thing theory, and the return to realism in literature
  • Liminal realism: Don Delillo, The body artist (2001)
  • Domestic realism: Ali Smith, The accidental (2005)
  • Poetic realism: Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
  • Conclusion: The way we write now
  • a case for realism(s)