Julia Breitbach

Analog Fictions for the Digital Age (eBook, PDF)

Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how current photographic discourse can illuminate the analysis of recent literary realism and proposes a truly original photographic hermeneutics for literary study.

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 discourse may be used as an illuminating critical idiom for the analysis of recent forms of literary realism, thus proposing a photographic hermeneutics for the study ofliterature. Along with a thorough critical investigation of both fields, Breitbach offers a pioneering theoretical exploration of analog and digital photography based on recent "thing theory," which she then applies to in-depth analyses of realist aesthetics in selected post-millennial novels by Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Ali Smith, yielding fresh perspectives on the remediation between photography and literature in the twenty-first century.
An original contribution to the study of contemporary Anglophone literatures with an interdisciplinary appeal, this study will be of interest especially to scholars and students in Anglophone literary studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and media studies.

Julia Breitbach is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571138408
• Artikelnr.: 56163410

Autorenporträt

Julia Breitbach

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)