Textual & visual selves : photography, film, and comic art in French autobiography /

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Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Edwards, Natalie, Hubbell, Amy L., Miller, Ann, 1949 September 1-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
French prose literature > History and criticism.
Authors, French > Biography > History and criticism.
Art in literature.
Autobiography > Authorship.
Visual perception in literature.
Literature and photography > France.
Self in literature.
Prose française > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains français > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Art dans la littérature.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Littérature et photographie > France.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Authors, French > Biography.
French prose literature.
Literature and photography.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Textual and Visual Selves; 1. Beyond Autobiography; 2. Chronicles of Intimacy: Photography in Autobiographical Projects; 3. The Absent Body: Photography and Autobiography in Hélène Cixous's Photos de racines and Annie Ernaux andMarc Marie's L'Usage de la photo; 4. The Photobiographical Today: Signs of an Identity Crisis?; 5. Reclaiming the Void: The Cinematographic Aesthetic of Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Novels
  • 6. Illustration Revisited: Phototextual Exchange and Resistance in Sophie Calle's Suite vénitienne7. Viewing the Past through a "Nostalgeric" Len s: Pied-Noir Photodocumentaries; 8. Georges Perec, Memory, and Photography; 9. The Self-Portrait in French Cinema: Reflections on Theory and on Agnès Varda'sLes Glaneurs et la glaneuse; 10. Autobiography in Bande Dessinée; Contributors; Index

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