dc.contributor.author	Russek, Dan
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-08T21:24:34Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-08T21:24:34Z
dc.date.issued	2015-04
dc.description.abstract	This book examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary criticism, it also aims to show how texts critically reflect upon the media environment in which they were created. The writings analyzed enter a dialogic relation with visual technologies such as the x-ray, cinema, illustrated journalism, and television. The study examines how these technologies, historically and aesthetically linked to the photographic medium, inform the works of some of the most important writers in Latin America. Methodologically, the close readings of the texts centre on the figure of ekphrasis (defined as the verbal representation of a visual representation). The book is concerned with the thematic, symbolic, structural and cultural imprints photography leaves in narrative texts. The author relies on an immanent approach, reading the selected texts according to their own specificities and making the relevant thematic and structural connections between them drawing from a variety of sources in the fields of literary criticism and theory and history of photography.	en_US
dc.description.grantingagency	Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Russek, D. "Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction". Latin American and Caribbean Series No. 11. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2015.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34562
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-784-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/50410
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.department	Latin American Research Centre	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Latin American and Caribbean Series;11
dc.subject	Spanish American fiction—20th century—History and criticism	eng
dc.subject	Photography in literature	eng
dc.subject	Literature and photography—Latin America—History—20th century	eng
dc.title	Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction	eng
dc.type	book

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