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Kathrin Yacavone - Intermedial Authorship, Inbunden

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Intermedial Authorship

Photography, Portraiture and Nineteenth-Century Literary Celebrity

Av Kathrin Yacavone

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Beskrivning
This book traces the nineteenth-century origins and rapid spread of the photographic author portrait. Innovatively exploring the combined socio-cultural, media- and photo-historical, and literary critical dynamics that shaped the trans- and intermedial production, uses, and reception of author portraits as exemplars of modern celebrity, it provides new perspectives on authorship as fundamentally shaped by photography. Based on extensive archival research, the book shows how photographic portraits of French authors were not mere visual appendages to their published works but significantly impacted on the (self-) presentation and reception of writers as cultural celebrities, through the unique affordances of the new medium.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 38 mm
  • Vikt: 1 170 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 392
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399568876
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Kathrin Yacavone researches and teaches in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. She is a media studies scholar and photography theorist with a particular interest in cross-media phenomena, including in photography and literature. She is the author of Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography (Continuum, 2012), co-editor of Die Fotografie und ihre Institutionen (Photography’s Institutionalization) (Reimer, 2024), and editor of five special journal issues on topics such as collaborative authorship, the history and aesthetics of photoalbums, contemporary photography in France, and nineteenth-century portraiture. Her current research project concerns the cultural impact of generative AI in relation to the aesthetic category of style.

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Learned and provocative, and broaching all sorts of fascinating questions, Intermedial Authorship reflects on the desire to know a text through a photograph of its author, a desire that especially exercised the literary culture of nineteenth-century France – and still preoccupies us today.

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