And the argument is...(drum roll, please).

Please read the previous post about Page Count before reading this.)

Here is what I pulled together this week. I am sure it will change. For the mean time, it gives me something to continue to work towards.



In Voyage in the Dark, Rhys stylistically responds to the mechanism that captures performance, that of the camera. In Quartet, Rhys focuses her attention to the subjects in front of the camera. I argue that the photographic presence is implicitly embedded in the narrative of Quartet and that its influence can be perceived in the characters persistent, albeit unspoken, attention to it. In this novel, Rhys relinquishes her role of being behind the camera in favor of demonstrating that mechanical reproduction is enmeshed in day-to-day experience.