Regarding Lost Time : Photography, Identity and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes

ISBN-13: 9781907747915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str.

Katja Haustein

Opis

What is autobiography and how does it transform in the age of technological reproducibility? Katja Haustein discusses this question as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (1909-22), Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900" (1932-38), and Roland Barthes's "Roland Barthes " (1977) and "Camera Lucida" (1980). In her close critical readings, Haustein provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of these popular works, mapping them against little-studied textual, visual and aural material, some of which has only recently become accessible. In this way, her book opens new avenues in scholarship dedicated to three outstanding twentieth-century writers and contributes to a field of critical inquiry that is still in the making: the history of autobiography in the light of a history of the gaze.

Spis treści

Introduction: Photography, Life, and the Work of Art Part I: Marcel Proust 1. Writing Life Visually 2. Picturing the Self and the Other 3. Proust's Visual and Emotional Cavities Part II: Walter Benjamin 4. Photography, Memory, and Representation 5. From Sight to Site: Benjamin's Self-Portraits 6. Eye and Affect Part III: Roland Barthes 7. From Life to Sign, or, 'La vie comme œuvre' 8. Transgressing Egotism: Selfhood, Vision and Affect 9. Conclusion: Barthes, Benjamin, Proust 'et la Photographie'

O autorze

Katja Haustein