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"Light that Dances in the Mind" - Photographs and Memory in the Writings of E. M. Forster and his Contemporaries

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book is concerned with the presence of familiar objects in unfamiliar places. It examines the literary practice of inserting imaginary photographs of art, architecture, and people into novels and short stories. These photographs are fictive objects, although some, especially those of art and architecture, have equivalents in real life. The book examines the presence of invented photographs in the writings of six authors who made extensive use of this practice. The first part of the book concentrates on E. M. Forster, while also including some discussion of imaginary photographs in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street. The second part of the book analyses the uses of photographs in the writings of Forster's near contemporaries, with separate chapters being devoted to Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. An epilogue touches on Christopher Isherwood, a member of the next generation of British writers. The book focuses upon largely unexplored areas in the writings of these authors - what Virginia Woolf in 'Modern Fiction' styled 'un-expected places'.

List of contents

Contents: Literature and photography - Photography in literature - Modernist literature - Modernist literature and the visual arts - E. M. Forster and photography - Henry James and photography - Marcel Proust and photography - James Joyce and photography - Virginia Woolf and photography - Photography and memory - Photography and travel - Travel in Italy.

About the author










The Author: Graham Smith is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also Editor of the international quarterly History of Photography and has published widely on Italian art and architecture of the sixteenth century and on photography in the nineteenth century.

Product details

Authors Graham Smith
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2016
 
EAN 9783039111176
ISBN 978-3-0-3911117-6
No. of pages 260
Dimensions 150 mm x 14 mm x 220 mm
Weight 390 g
Series Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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