Photography in Fiction
Photography in Fiction. Co-editor: Silke Horstkotte. Spec. issue of Poetics Today, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2008.
The essays in Photography in Fiction build on twentieth-century debates relating to photography to reexamine and reframe the oft-repeated associations between photography and memory, death, identity, or witnessing. Taken together, the articles invite reconsideration of some of the most popular notions informing the study of photography in the belief that such investigations will lead to alternative approaches to word-and-image relations and, in particular, those between photography and fiction.
Table of Contents
Horstkotte, Silke and Nancy Pedri. 鈥淚ntroduction: Photographic Interventions鈥 1-29.
Photography as a Critical Idiom
Louvel, Liliane. 鈥淧hotography as Critical Idiom and Intermedial Criticism.鈥 31-48.
Horstkotte, Silke. 鈥淧hoto-Text Topographies: Photography and the Representation of Space in W. G. Sebald and Monika Moron.鈥 49-78.
Moving Beyond
Duttlinger, Carolin. 鈥淚maginary Encounters: Walter Benjamin and the Aura of Photography.鈥 79-101.
Hirsch, Marianne. 鈥淭he Generation of Postmemory.鈥 103-128.
Anderson, Mark M. 鈥淒ocuments, Photography, Postmemory: Alexander Kluge, W. G. Sebald and the German Family.鈥 129-153.
The Photograph: A Textual Excess?
Pedri, Nancy. 鈥淒ocumenting the Fictions of Reality.鈥 155-173.
Adams, Timothy Dow. 鈥淧hotographs on the Walls of Fiction.鈥 175-196.
Long, J. J. 鈥淧aratextual Profusion: Photography and Text in Bertolt Brecht鈥檚 War Primer.鈥 197-224.