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The Politics of Postmodernism
This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world. A new epilogue traces the fate of the postmodern over the last ten years and into the future, responding to claims that it has, once and for all, 'failed'. Together with the new epilogue, this edition contains revised notes on further reading and a fully updated bibliography. This revised edition of The Politics of Postmodernism continues its position as essential reading.
Linda Hutcheon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on postmodernism, parody and irony (including Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony ) and has recently done interdisciplinary work with Michael Hutcheon on opera and medicine ( Opera: Desire, Disease and Death, and Bodily Charm: Living Opera ).
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Girl online : going solo
Sixteen-year-old blogger Penny takes the advice of her online commenters in the wake of her break up with Noah, concentrating on her best friend Elliot who needs her now more than ever, working on her photography project for her internship, and making new friends, including a student actress with stage fright and a Scottish photographer who might drive away the ghost of Noah.
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The Camera and the Press
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled.Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
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Henry's picture-perfect day
It is picture day for Classroom Ten, but Henry does not feel comfortable or normal in his new clothes, and he has not practiced smiling like the other children.
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W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies
When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of - as W.G. Sebald puts it - the \"natural history of destruction\", comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald's most prolific interpreters - as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant's story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has - as this book attests - also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, to embrace ambiguity, and to turn to today's migrants with empathy and responsibility; as well as to let academic research, creation and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.
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The Lincoln project
\"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history-- Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Picture stories
Picture Post was Britain's best-selling weekly magazine during the 1940s and early 50s. Through its picture stories, Picture Post pioneered a completely new approach to the portrayal of British life, and in doing so helped to shape modern British photography. PICTURE STORIES, a feature-length documentary, explores that revolution through the eyes of some of Britain's leading documentary and street photographers, and through archive interviews with Picture Post photographers, writers and editors.
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The confusion of Laurel Graham
Laurel Graham's all-consuming ambition is to become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. When Gran takes Laurel out on a birding expedition, the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can't identify. They vow to find out what it is together, but then Gran is involved in a horrible car accident. Now Gran is in a coma, her house is being sold, developers are coming in to destroy the nature sanctuary, and Laurel still can't seem to identify the mystery bird.
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Fiction in the Age of Digital Photography: Fragmented Bodies, Distorted Time and Lost Control in Recent Irish Women’s Novels
Almost a century and a half after François Arago presented Daguerre’s invention to the Académie des Sciences, Nancy Armstrong devoted Fiction in the Age of Photography to the impact this invention had on literary realism in the nineteenth century. A little more than half a century after the first digital photograph, Julia Breitbach’s Analog Fictions for the Digital Age: Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000 questioned whether literature written in the digital age has genuinely come to terms with the revolution digital technologies have wrought on the medium of photography. This paper reflects on two recent novels by Irish millennial authors to see if this finding still holds. Referring to some of the fundamental differences between analogue and digital photography – fragmentation, temporality and authoriality – this paper suggests that in Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It (2015) and Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018), digital photography is not only foregrounded thematically, but also has an impact on the writing itself.
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