{"product_id":"a-familiar-strangeness-american-fiction-and-the-language-of-photography-1839-1945-paperback","title":"A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStuart Burrows\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist novel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image. Instead, says Stuart Burrows, photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render American identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. The camera, according to Burrows, provoked a representational crisis, one broadly modernist in character. Since the photograph is not only a copy of its subject but a physical product of it, the camera can be seen as actually challenging mimetic or realistic theories of representation, which depend on a recognizable gap between original and reproduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBurrows argues for the centrality of photography to a set of writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera-including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston. The photographic metaphors and allusions to the medium that appear throughout these writers' work demonstrate the ways in which one representational form actually influences another--by changing how artists conceive of identity, history, and art itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Familiar Strangeness\u003c\/i\u003e thus challenges the notion of an absolute break between nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century modernism, a break that typically centers precisely on the two movements' supposedly differing relation to the camera. Just as modernist fiction interrupts and questions the link between visuality and knowledge, so American realist fiction can be understood as making the world less knowable precisely by making it more visible.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart Burrows is an associate professor of English at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757835452704,"sku":"9780820335216","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7c7c78812678ec197f0de5e2f301472f.webp?v=1780112952","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-familiar-strangeness-american-fiction-and-the-language-of-photography-1839-1945-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}