Images of traumatic memories : : intersections of literature and photography in the novels of Riggs, Safran Foer and Seiffert / / Anja Meyer.

• Superior document: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities. ; v.14
• VerfasserIn: Meyer, Anja, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R Unipress,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I. Image-Text Relationship: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Framework -- 1. Word-Image Relationship -- 1.1. Ut Pictura Poesis -- 1.2. Barthes and the Third Meaning -- 1.3. The Pictorial Turn -- 2. The Photographic Language -- 2.1. The Age of Literary Realism -- 2.2. Baudelaire and the First Critics -- 2.3. Photography and Nostalgia -- 2.4. Photography's Optical Unconscious -- 3. Trauma: Between Science and Culture -- 3.1. The History of the Psychiatric and Psychological Concept of Trauma -- 3.2. Neurophysiological Effects of Trauma -- 3.3. Trauma and Memory -- 3.4. Cultural and Literary Memory -- 3.5. Photography as Memory Text -- 3.6. The Generation of Postmemory -- 4. Intermediality -- 4.1. What is a Medium? -- 4.2. The Literary Montage -- 4.3. Defining Intermediality -- 4.4. Fiction-Photography Interaction -- II. The Spectral Evidence of Photographs: The Dark Room -- 1. Themes and Narrative Structure -- 2. Helmut: the Photographic Perspective -- 3. Lore: the Optical Aperture -- 4. Micha: the Photographic Development -- III. A Peculiar Narrative Photo-album: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children -- 1. Talking Pictures -- 2. Themes and Narrative Structure -- 3. Peculiar Photographs -- 4. A Temporal Loop -- 5. Postmemory and the Peculiars -- 6. The Aesthetic of Peculiars as Freaks -- IV. The Crisis of Memory in the Visual Era: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- 1. Themes and Narrative Structure -- 2. Narrative Witnessing -- 3. Codes of Communication -- 4. The Use of Photographs -- 5. The Use of Typography -- 6. The Falling Man -- 6.1. Photographing Trauma on 9/11 -- 6.2. Trauma and Media -- 6.3. The Flip Book -- References -- Novels and Photo-collections -- On Visual Studies, Media and Culture -- On Photography, Memory and Trauma Studies.

Further Literary and Cultural References -- Web Resources -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.