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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777051203321

Autore

Duttlinger Carolin

Titolo

Kafka and photography [[electronic resource] /] / Carolin Duttlinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-14985-3

9786611149857

0-19-152748-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Disciplina

833.912

Soggetti

Photography in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Kafka and Photography: History of a Theoretical Configuration; 2. From Film to Photography: Constructing the Viewer in the Early Diaries; 3. Der Verschollene: Visions of the New World; 4. Photographic Metamorphoses: Die Verwandlung; 5. Fetishistic Exchange: Kafka's Letters to Felice Bauer; 6. Der Proceβ: The Criminological Gaze; 7. Optics of Power: 'Blumfeld', 'Ein Hungerkünstler', and Das Schloβ; Conclusion: Kafka the Photographer?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. In the first detailed study of photography in Kafka's work, which includes more than 20 illustrations, Carolin Duttlinger gives close readings of the most important prose works, as well as the letters and diaries. - ;Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of ph