Within the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. Snapshots of the Soul reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to "writing the photograph" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.
Within the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. Snapshots of the Soul reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to "writing the photograph" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture
328Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture
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ISBN-13: | 9781501753695 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 07/15/2021 |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |