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...
What is autobiography and how does it transform in the age of technological reproducibility? Katja Haustein discusses this question as it relates to p...