A familiar strangeness :: American fiction and the language of photography, 1839-1945 /

Challenges the notion of a break between nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century modernism based on the two movements' supposedly differing relation to the camera. Burrows argues that just as modernist fiction questions the link between visuality and knowledge, so realist fiction makes...

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Main Author: Burrows, Stuart, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Challenges the notion of a break between nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century modernism based on the two movements' supposedly differing relation to the camera. Burrows argues that just as modernist fiction questions the link between visuality and knowledge, so realist fiction makes the world less knowable by making it more visible.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index.
ISBN:9780820337418
0820337412
1282642898
9781282642898
9780820340241
0820340243

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