Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf

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Informação do Produto

ISBN9781399526999
AutoresMarit Grøtta
EditoraEdinburgh University Press
FormatoCapa mole
Número de páginas232
Peso (kg)0,356
Data de Publicação31/12/2025
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Imposto€ 1,52
Preço (iva inc.)€ 26,90
Disponibilidade1 unidade em armazém externo

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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 Grøtta 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.