Marit Grøtta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marit Grøtta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marit |
| FAMILY NAME | Grøtta |
| SIGNATURE | GRØTTA M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. These writers depict scenes where the characters collect, behold, and cherish portrait photographs. At the same t…
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
At the Door of the Theater
The Nature theater of Oklahama in Der Verschollene is one of Kafka's most enigmatic inventions, widely known through Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's reading of it as a theater of gestures. This article explores the intertextual archive of Kafka's novel, bringing into play an entry hitherto overlooked: the nature theater movement in the early twentieth century, promoted by the conservative Heimatkunstbewegung. Discussing the historical nat…
Reading/Developing Images
This article reassesses Charles Baudelaire's stance toward photography and investigates how the subject of photography is treated by him poetically. Reading the prose poems "Les Fenêtres" and "Mademoiselle Bistouri," it argues that Baudelaire was highly concerned with the question of reading images and discusses the importance of captions in the age of technological reproducibility, with reference to Walter Benjamin's essay on photography. The ar…
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Reading/Developing Images
This article reassesses Charles Baudelaire's stance toward photography and investigates how the subject of photography is treated by him poetically. Reading the prose poems "Les Fenêtres" and "Mademoiselle Bistouri," it argues that Baudelaire was highly concerned with the question of reading images and discusses the importance of captions in the age of technological reproducibility, with reference to Walter Benjamin's essay on photography. The ar…
At the Door of the Theater
The Nature theater of Oklahama in Der Verschollene is one of Kafka's most enigmatic inventions, widely known through Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's reading of it as a theater of gestures. This article explores the intertextual archive of Kafka's novel, bringing into play an entry hitherto overlooked: the nature theater movement in the early twentieth century, promoted by the conservative Heimatkunstbewegung. Discussing the historical nat…
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. These writers depict scenes where the characters collect, behold, and cherish portrait photographs. At the same t…
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (2 works) · Portrait (2 works)