Familiar Strangeness
Literary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist novel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image. Instead, says Stuart Burrows, photography''s influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render American identi...
Literary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist novel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image. Instead, says Stuart Burrows, photography''s influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render American identi...
