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Photobiography : photographic self-writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé / Akane Kawakami.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawakami, Akane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- French prose literature.
- Literature and photography--France--History--19th century.
- Literature and photography.
- Authors, French--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, French.
- Authors, French--Biography.
- Photography--France--History--19th century.
- Photography.
- Visual perception in literature.
- Photography in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Self-realization in literature.
- History.
- France.
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Guibert, Hervé.
- Ernaux, Annie, 1940-.
- Macé, Gérard.
- Local Subjects:
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Guibert, Hervé.
- Ernaux, Annie, 1940-.
- Macé, Gérard.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Photographic self-writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Legenda, 2013.
- Summary:
- Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the constructed self. In this timely study, based on the most recent developments in the fields of photography theory, self-writing and photo-biography, Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing narrative which runs from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic works to phototexts. Her choice of Marcel Proust, Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux and Gérard Macé provides unusual readings of works seldom considered in this context, and teases out surprising similarities between unexpected conjunctions.
- Contents:
- 1 Photography and Proust 17
- 2 Hervé Guibert: Photography and Love 39
- 3 Annie Ernaux: Photography and' the Real 83
- 4 Gérard Macé: Photography and Self-Creation 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781907975868
- 1907975861
- OCLC:
- 866836638
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