Ways of Seeing: Modern American Fiction and Photography

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Reads a number of important modernist novels alongside the work of early 20th-century American photographers, focusing on what this fiction's engagement with photography has to teach us about the reproduction and circulation of American identity and history. Writers include James, Dos Passos, Hurston, Agee, Welty, and Ellison; photographers include Stieglitz, Strand, and Weston. Enrollment limited to 15.