Image Technologies in Canadian Literature Kartoniert (TB)

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 theor ists 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.