Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Modernism, Media and Emotion
Seiten
2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2698-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2698-2 (ISBN)
Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. Combining perspectives from literary, visual and media studies, Marit Grotta discusses these writers' ambivalent views on portrait photographs and the uncertain status of technical images in the early twentieth century more generally. In reconsidering the attention paid to analogue photographs in literature, this book throws light on both modernist reactions to portrait photography and on our relationships to photographs today.
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. Combining perspectives from literary, visual and media studies, Marit Grotta discusses these writers' ambivalent views on portrait photographs and the uncertain status of technical images in the early twentieth century more generally. In reconsidering the attention paid to analogue photographs in literature, this book throws light on both modernist reactions to portrait photography and on our relationships to photographs today.
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2698-7 / 1399526987 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2698-2 / 9781399526982 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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