CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSORTIUM OF ITALIAN STUDIES (CICIS)
Sarah A. Carey, "Imbriani's Innovation: Photography as
Framework in Merope IV (1867)" winner 2010 prize for the best
paper presented by a graduate student.
The committee found Sarah Carey's paper to be engaging, critically acute in
its close readings, provocative in its argument for reconsidering Imbriani,
and wonderfully suggestive in its explorations of the photos as a literary
device in Merope IV. Carey's deft analysis reveals a writer whose
engagement with the photographic image is both interesting and complex.
Not only has Carey done a masterful job of arguing against Croce's
dismissal of Imbriani's work as mere "bizzarrie," she has added an
overlooked nineteenth-century Italian to the corpus of European writers
whose work was influenced by photography.
Carey's paper also projects the confidence and maturity that come from
close reading and immersion in one's topic. We found her essay to be
well-written, cleverly argued, and just plain interesting and a pleasure to
read. We were impressed by the way Sarah Carey manages to make quite
intricate analyses and linkages look easy, and at times, even more
impressed with the thoroughness and mastery of research into visual
materials and textual primary and secondary sources that her essay
evidences. We all learned from the essay and found to be persuasive from
beginning to end. Please give Sarah our congratulations.
Click here to return.
|
|