1st Edition

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

By Katja Haustein Copyright 2012
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900, and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.

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

    Biography

    Katja Haustein