The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath: Photographs in Literary Biographies

Biography—unlike fiction—is a referential genre (Lejeune 1994, 39-40), it constantly refers to a kind of truth or reality that lies outside the textual level. Photographs in biographies function as powerful referring devices, because, as Roland Barthes (1980) put it, the essence of the photograph is...

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Main Author: Sophie Mayr
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2019-06-01
Series:CoSMO
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Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/3449