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Capturing Authority: Analyzing the Representation of the Authority of the Photographic Image in NADJA and WHITE NOISE

Collard, Megan R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1178304977

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2007, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - English.
This thesis analyzes the ways in which Nadja, by Andre Breton, and White Noise, by Don DeLillo, approach and react to the authority of the photographic image. The inclusion of photographs alongside Breton’s written text in his narrative do not function in an expressive manner, but rather, are present in order to invoke the notion that the narrative is a legitimate, autobiographical re-telling of events through the use of the realistic, objective authority that the photographs lend. DeLillo, however, approaches the subject of the authority of the photographic image, specifically in film and media, much more skeptically in the way he represents these entities. DeLillo demonstrates, through his novel, the ways that such a great authority and dependency on the photographic image, via film and the news media, has distanced his characters from the natural world. As a result, characters seem to exist in a state of hyperreality, confusing that which is real with simulacra.
Elisabeth Hodges (Advisor)

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  • Collard, M. R. (2007). Capturing Authority: Analyzing the Representation of the Authority of the Photographic Image in NADJA and WHITE NOISE [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1178304977

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Collard, Megan. Capturing Authority: Analyzing the Representation of the Authority of the Photographic Image in NADJA and WHITE NOISE. 2007. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1178304977.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Collard, Megan. "Capturing Authority: Analyzing the Representation of the Authority of the Photographic Image in NADJA and WHITE NOISE." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1178304977

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