Images of Traumatic Memories
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Images of Traumatic Memories

Intersections of Literature and Photography in the Novels of Riggs, Safran Foer and Seiffert

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Images of Traumatic Memories

Intersections of Literature and Photography in the Novels of Riggs, Safran Foer and Seiffert

About this book

By employing the lens of the most recent critical studies on intermediality, the author analyses the interaction between literature and photography in three contemporary hybrid novels (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, 2011, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005, and The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert, 2001) sharing the narration of traumatic historical events. The intermedial dimension realised by the confluence of the two media devices offers new ways to create meaning and to reflect upon the nature of collective and individual trauma, by re-enacting the distortion and the inaccessibility to the memories of those experiences. In this context, the reader emerges as an active participant in the process of fiction-making, as the act of reading becomes a renewed act of witnessing.

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Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783847111634
eBook ISBN
9783847011637
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Abstract
  6. Introduction
  7. I. Image-Text Relationship: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Framework
  8. II. The Spectral Evidence of Photographs: The Dark Room
  9. III. A Peculiar Narrative Photo-album: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
  10. IV. The Crisis of Memory in the Visual Era: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  11. References
  12. Index of Names
  13. Subject Index