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This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900, and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.



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Introduction: Photography, Life, and the Work of Art; I: Marcel Proust; 1: Writing Life Visually; 2: Picturing the Self and the Other; 3: Proust’s Visual and Emotional Cavities; II: Walter Benjamin; 4: Photography, Memory, and Representation; 5: From Sight to Site: Benjamin’s Self-Portraits; 6: Eye and Affect; III: Roland Barthes; 7: From Life to Sign, or, ‘La vie comme œuvre’ 1; 8: Transgressing Egotism: Selfhood, Vision and Affect; Conclusion: Barthes, Benjamin, Proust ‘et la Photographie’

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 15/01/2012
      ISBN13: 9781907747915, 978-1907747915
      ISBN10: 1907747915
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900, and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.



      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Photography, Life, and the Work of Art; I: Marcel Proust; 1: Writing Life Visually; 2: Picturing the Self and the Other; 3: Proust’s Visual and Emotional Cavities; II: Walter Benjamin; 4: Photography, Memory, and Representation; 5: From Sight to Site: Benjamin’s Self-Portraits; 6: Eye and Affect; III: Roland Barthes; 7: From Life to Sign, or, ‘La vie comme œuvre’ 1; 8: Transgressing Egotism: Selfhood, Vision and Affect; Conclusion: Barthes, Benjamin, Proust ‘et la Photographie’

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