Photographic Encounters The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions

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pp. xi 329.b/w illus., offers a compelling perspective on questions of literacy in postmodern culture.”PhotoGraphic Encounters discusses Canadian writers like Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Robert Kroetsch, and Daphne Marlatt, and Canadian artists like Fred Douglas, Ernie Kroeger, Brenda Pelkey, and Michael Snow, then looks at the cross-fertilization of visual and verbal processes in their works. The authors present a new narrative practice, one that fully engages lived experience. The vernacular, they argue, is vital to our participation as readers and viewers of high art”

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ISBN 888643624
ISBN13 9780888643629
Number of pages 329
Original Title PhotoGraphic Encounters: The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions
Published Date 2000
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition No Dj
Binding Paperback
Size 4to
Place of Publication Edmonton
Edition First Canadian Edition
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pp. xi 329.b/w illus., offers a compelling perspective on questions of literacy in postmodern culture.”PhotoGraphic Encounters discusses Canadian writers like Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Robert Kroetsch, and Daphne Marlatt, and Canadian artists like Fred Douglas, Ernie Kroeger, Brenda Pelkey, and Michael Snow, then looks at the cross-fertilization of visual and verbal processes in their works. The authors present a new narrative practice, one that fully engages lived experience. The vernacular, they argue, is vital to our participation as readers and viewers of high art”

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Weight 1.4 kg