The relationship between text and photos is vital for a photographic essay to take shape. ... The book begins with numerous photographs that are still and without text, forcing the viewer to begin to separate text from pictures. ... Alloula takes explicit pictures and provides text to them for post cards. ... Said provides text for Mohr's photographs taken in Palestine. ... His photos are taken with no bias and with no influence for Said's text. ...

• Word Count: 1891
• Approx Pages: 8
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Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Similarly Knapp (2004) thinks that in the present age the focus needs to be shifted from what texts mean to what students think about them and how they learn. ... Students are not trained to see how literary texts are contributing in constructing reality through ideological representations. ... As a result students become a storehouse of the information related to certain texts but not critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. ... Simi...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate