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The Language of Vision - Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After (Hardcover)
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The Language of Vision - Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary
expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern
imagery and text affect one another, explains Joseph R. Millichap,
as intertextual languages and influential visions. Focusing on the
1930s, and including significant works both before and after this
preeminent decade, Millichap uncovers fascinating convergences
between mediums, particularly in the interplay of documentary
realism and subjective modernism. Millichap's subjects range from
William Faulkner's fiction, perhaps the best representation of
literary and graphic tensions of the period, and the work of other
major figures like Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty to specific
novels, including Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and James Agee's
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Fleshing out historical and cultural
background as well as critical and theoretical context, Millichap
shows how these texts echo and inform the visual medium to reveal
personal insights and cultural meanings. Warren's fictions and
poems, Millichap argues, redefine literary and graphic tensions
throughout the late twentieth century; Welty's narratives and
photographs reinterpret gender, race, and class; and Ellison's
analysis of race in segregated America draws from contemporary
photography. Millichap also traces these themes and visions in
Natasha Trethewey's contemporary poetry and prose, revealing how
the resonances of these artistic and historical developments extend
into the new century. This groundbreaking study reads southern
literature across time through the prism of photography, offering a
brilliant formulation of the dialectic art forms.
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Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Southern Literary Studies |
Release date: |
May 2016 |
Authors: |
Joseph R. Millichap
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-6277-4 |
Categories: |
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Arts & Architecture >
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LSN: |
0-8071-6277-9 |
Barcode: |
9780807162774 |
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