Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion - Hardcover
by Marit Grøtta
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399526982ISBN-10:1399526987UPC:9781399526982Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC0AZJS0BN
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399526982ISBN-10:1399526987UPC:9781399526982Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC0AZJS0BN
Marit Grøtta is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and Nineteenth-Century Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) and a number of articles on Schlegel, Baudelaire, Proust, Kafka, Woolf, Queneau and Agamben. Her research interests are nineteenth-century and modernist literature, visual...
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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