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Author: Katherine M. H. Reischl
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9781501724367
ISBN 10: 1501724363
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 December 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a first-rate scholarly monograph. Reischl's work brings together scholarly rigor, an excellent knowledge of sources, deft and expressive writing, insightful close-reading, and careful thinking. -- Julie Buckler, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and the author of <I>Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape</I> This book represents a truly significant contribution to literary criticism, offering a timely, in-depth, wide-ranging critical engagement of an issue of great current interest: how technology affects the evolution of cultural forms. -- Elizabeth Papazian, Associate Professor of Russian and Film Studies, University of Maryland, and author of <I>Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture</I>
Katherine M. H. Reischl shows how, for generations of Russian author-photographers, text and photography became essential in representations of the world and of the author. Photographic Literacy is essential for anyone interested in Russian institutions of authorship and media history and offers detailed accounts of important figures from Leo Tolstoy to Alexander Rodchenko. -- Kevin Platt, Kevin M.F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, and author of <I>Terror and Greatness</I> This is a first-rate scholarly monograph. Reischl's work brings together scholarly rigor, an excellent knowledge of sources, deft and expressive writing, insightful close-reading, and careful thinking. -- Julie Buckler, Harvard University, and the author of <I>Mapping St. Petersburg</I> This book represents a truly significant contribution to literary criticism, offering a timely, in-depth, wide-ranging critical engagement of an issue of great current interest: how technology affects the evolution of cultural forms. -- Elizabeth Papazian, University of Maryland, and author of <I>Manufacturing Truth</I>
Author Information
Katherine M. H. Reischl is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. In addition to her work on Russian author-photographers, she has published on Soviet children’s books and the digital mediation of avant-garde journals.
