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  • The Photographer as Autobiographer

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Phenomenology of Autobiography

    Making it Real

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and the initial purpose of autobiography as a means for the author to communicate with a reader and narrate an experience. The ... Read more

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  • Daniel Mendelsohn’s Memoir-Writing

    Rings of Memory

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn's first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and includes an illustrated interview (2019) in which Mendelsohn tackles various aspects of his work as a literary and cultural critic, as a professor of classical literature, as a translator, and as a memoirist. The ... Read more

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  • Omni-personal Luxury

    How to Transform your Luxury Business for the Digital Age

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Rapid shifts in technology and societal changes accelerated by the Pandemic have fundamentally changed the way that customers experience luxury. While digital transformation has unlocked new opportunities to connect one-to-one with customers, the challenge for luxury brands is to engage with customers while protecting their brand equity and leveraging digital tools to build personal relationships ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Hybridity in Life Writing

    Combining Text and Images

    Edited by Arnaud Schmitt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing. Each chapter explores the very topical issue of how writers and artists combine two media in order to enhance the autobiographical narrative and experience of the reader. It questions the position of images in relation to text, both on the page and in terms of the power balance between media. It also shows ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour

    A Playfully Serious Affective Mode

    Series series Life Writing
    Autofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play. Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and in their own voice engage with a given topic. Yet very few autofictional texts are exclusively, or even primarily, playful. Many employ humour and irony to address very serious subject matter. This volume ... Read more

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  • Film, Theory and Philosophy

    The Key Thinkers

    Philosophy, and in particular continental philosophy, has provided a conceptual underpinning for cinema since its beginnings, especially in the development of cinematic aesthetics. In its turn, film has rethought the abstractions of space and time and the categories of sex and gender and has created new concepts which illuminate phenomenology, metaphysics and epistemology. "Film and Philosophy" ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history anddevelopment of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks.Divided into five key parts, this volume covers:Concepts and topics – from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions ... Read more

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  • Rewriting Conceptual Art

    Edited by Jon Bird, Michael Newman ...
    Series series Critical Views
    With essays by Alex Alberro, Stephen Bann, Jon Bird, David Campany, Helen Molesworth, Michael Newman, Peter Osborne, Birgit Pelzer, Desa Philipagesi, Anne Rorimer, Peter Wollen and William Wood.An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the institutional and social relationships among production, ... Read more

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  • Narratology in Practice

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    Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal’s international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which the examples focus almost exclusively on literary studies, this new book offers more elaborate analyses of visual media, especially visual art and ... Read more

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