Analog fictions for the digital age
Subtitle: literary realism and photographic discourses in novels after 2000
By: Julia Breitbach
Series: European studies in North American literature and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781571135407
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); History and criticism; Literature and photography; Realism in literature; Fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Toward a photographic reading of literary realism; title: Photography in the digital age: critical contexts and the question of realism; title: This thing in the text: photography, thing theory, and the return to realism in literature; title: Liminal realism: Don Delillo, The body artist (2001); title: Domestic realism: Ali Smith, The accidental (2005); title: Poetic realism: Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007); title: Conclusion: The way we write now - a case for realism(s).