Image Technologies in Canadian Literature

Carmen Concilio

ISBN 10: 9052014744 / ISBN 13: 9789052014746

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Mrz 2009, 2009

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The eight essays in Image Technologies in Canadian Literature reveal the ongoing importance of film and photography in the production of Canadian literary narratives. Covering modern to cutting-edge postmodern and postcolonial authors, the role of image texts and technologies is thoroughly investigated in relation to translation, performance, history, memory, point-of-view, picture poetics, and dialectical images; authors covered include Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Robert Kroetsch, Joseph Dandurand and Stan Douglas. The resulting engagement with some of the key theorists of film and photography, such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, leads to a lively contribution to the study of hybrid forms of Canadian literature and its key theoretical/image texts. 164 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9789052014746

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Image Technologies in Canadian Literature
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Mrz 2009
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9052014744
• ISBN-13: 9789052014746
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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The eight essays in Image Technologies in Canadian Literature reveal the ongoing importance of film and photography in the production of Canadian literary narratives. Covering modern to cutting-edge postmodern and postcolonial authors, the role of image texts and technologies is thoroughly investigated in relation to translation, performance, history, memory, point-of-view, picture poetics, and dialectical images ; authors covered include Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Robert Kroetsch, Joseph Dandurand and Stan Douglas. The resulting engagement with some of the key theorists of film and photography, such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, leads to a lively contribution to the study of hybrid forms of Canadian literature and its key theoretical/image texts.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Editors: Carmen Concilio is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in English at the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin, Italy. She works in the field of Postcolonial Studies including Canadian literature. Translation, contemporary theory, photography and postmodern urban architecture are among her most recent research projects and academic publications.
Richard J. Lane teaches in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, BC, Canada, where he is the Director of the Literary Theory Research Group & Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He works in the fields of Canadian and British Literatures, and of Contemporary Theory (Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida).