Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf by Marit Grtta

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf by Marit Grtta

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.

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 culture, media philosophy and aesthetic theory.

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ISBN 13	9781399526982
Title	Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Author	Marit Grotta
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2024-03-01
Number of pages	232
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