In the event
Subtitle: reading journalism, reading theory
By: Deborah Esch.
Series: Meridian, crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Journalism
Description: "This book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time.

Through attentive readings of a range of texts - including theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper reports, and "live" television broadcasts - In the Event elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium) and what we take it to represent."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.