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“Memory is the Primary Instrument, the Inexhaustible Nutrient Source”. Remediations of Literary Romanticism in Sally Mann's Family Photographs

“Memory is the Primary Instrument, the Inexhaustible Nutrient Source”. Remediations of Literary... It has been argued that Romantic images of childhood have disappeared from late twentieth-century culture, and that the innocent child of nature has made way for the “knowing child.” However, if we go beyond pictorial traditions and include literary Romanticism, a caesura in the cultural construction of childhood becomes questionable. A close reading of Sally Mann's Immediate Family , an album of art photographs that have been proposed as crucial evidence of a break in the aesthetics and poetics of childhood, shows that the continuities between Mann's family photographs and the Romantic paradigm vastly outnumber the discontinuities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arcadia - Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft / International Journal for Literary Studies de Gruyter

“Memory is the Primary Instrument, the Inexhaustible Nutrient Source”. Remediations of Literary Romanticism in Sally Mann's Family Photographs

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de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright ? 2011 Walter de Gruyter All rights reserved
Subject
BEITRÄGE
ISSN
0003-7982
eISSN
1613-0642
DOI
10.1515/ARCA.2011.001
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Abstract

It has been argued that Romantic images of childhood have disappeared from late twentieth-century culture, and that the innocent child of nature has made way for the “knowing child.” However, if we go beyond pictorial traditions and include literary Romanticism, a caesura in the cultural construction of childhood becomes questionable. A close reading of Sally Mann's Immediate Family , an album of art photographs that have been proposed as crucial evidence of a break in the aesthetics and poetics of childhood, shows that the continuities between Mann's family photographs and the Romantic paradigm vastly outnumber the discontinuities.

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Arcadia - Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft / International Journal for Literary Studies – de Gruyter

Published: Jul 1, 2011

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