Photo-textualities
Subtitle: reading photographs and literature
By: edited by Marsha Bryant.
Contributors: Bryant, Marsha, 1960-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Newark; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: 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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.