American Literature and Immediacy - Literary Innovation Emergence of Photography, Film, Television

List of contents

The quest for immediacy in American literature and media culture; Part I. Literary Immediacy and Photography: 1. The poet as 'exact reporter of the essential law': Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetics in the context of early photography; 2. 'To exalt the present and the real': Walt Whitman's photographic poetry; 3. The politics of paying attention: the romantic desire for immediacy; Part II. Literary Immediacy and the Cinema: 4. 'Living moving pictures': the thrills of early cinema; 5. 'Making a cinema of it': seriality and presence in Gertrude Stein's early literary portraits; 6. 'A novel like a documentary film': cinematic writing as cultural critique in John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer; Part III. Literary Immediacy and Television: 7. Being there: television's aesthetics of immediacy; 8. For real? The critique of TV culture in the short fiction of Robert Coover and David Foster Wallace; 9. "Nothing happens until it is consumed': the remediation of TV images in Don DeLillo's novel Mao II; 10. Fiction in the age of television; Still in pursuit; Bibliography.

About the author

Heike Schaefer is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a former Fulbright fellow, author of Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (2004), and has edited several books and special issues, including The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor (2019), Literary Knowledge Production and the Life Sciences (2017), and Network Theory and American Studies (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Heike Schaefer, Schaefer Heike
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108487382
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48738-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; USA, Amerika, Media Studies, English, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000