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PhotoGraphic Encounters
Donald Lawrence
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Description for PhotoGraphic Encounters
Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1132.
Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at the expense of other forms of communication. In PhotoGraphic Encounters, the authors challenge this reductive notion of literacy and propose instead an integrated span of literacies: reaching across disciplinary boundaries to discover a text that draws upon both the visual and the verbal. PhotoGraphic Encounters discusses Canadian writers like Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Robert Kroetsch, and Daphne Marlatt, and Canadian artists like Fred Douglas, Ernie Kroeger, Brenda Pelkey, and Michael Snow, then looks ... Read more
Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at the expense of other forms of communication. In PhotoGraphic Encounters, the authors challenge this reductive notion of literacy and propose instead an integrated span of literacies: reaching across disciplinary boundaries to discover a text that draws upon both the visual and the verbal. PhotoGraphic Encounters discusses Canadian writers like Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Robert Kroetsch, and Daphne Marlatt, and Canadian artists like Fred Douglas, Ernie Kroeger, Brenda Pelkey, and Michael Snow, then looks ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888643629
SKU
V9780888643629
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About Donald Lawrence
William Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence
Reviews for PhotoGraphic Encounters
"Building on the wealth of Canadian artists.. [the authors] are helping popularize and demystify a whole new vocabulary about our society's increasingly intertext forms." Gilbert A. Bouchard, Edmonton Journal "The close individual analyses of individual artists offer considerable insight and stimulation." Karen Mulhallen, Canadian Literature "This book will be the focus of considerable discussion within the literary, fine arts, and ... Read more