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Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium's invention in 1839 to the present day.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Alù (University of Sydney, Australia) and Pedri (Memorial Univ., Newfoundland) have put together a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of photography on Italian literary texts, published from the mid-19th century onward, in which photographic imagery is integrated into the narrative. Organized into four parts and 11 chapters, the interdisciplinary essays focus on a single text or multiple texts, including works on which a writer and a photographer collaborated. Contributors also investigate works in which vivid description of the subject matter takes on a photographic quality. All the contributors take into consideration the aesthetics, linguistics, stylistics, and themes of the writings and photographs. Works by authors, photographers, and teams of the two--De Amicis, Valera, Serao, Neera, Verga, Capuana, Calvino and Celati, Fossati and Messori, Imbriani, De Luca, Giacomelli and Crocenzi, Tabucchi and Del Giudice, Romano and Vittorini, Moravia, De Carlo, and Vorpsi--are analyzed, with the essays relying heavily on theoretical frameworks of Barthes, Peirce, Bazin, Sontag, and Benjamin. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia
TextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (339 pages) : color illustrations, photographsContent type: 