Overview
- Explores how text and image can be brought together to enhance autobiographical narrative
- Chapters explore a range of examples of intermediality, from the eighteenth century to the present
- Includes new insights into the interaction between life narratives and social media
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Photography, Text, Photographic Texts
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The Materialities of Hybridity: Artists, Autobiographies, Textualities, Images and Graphic Narratives
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 how hybridity operates beyond a semantic and cultural balance of power, as the combination of text and images are able to produce content that would not have been possible separately. Including a range of life writing and different visual media, from paintings and photography to graphic memoirs and social media, this edited collection investigates the point at which an image, whether fixed or moving, enters the autobiographical act and confronts the verbal form.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Arnaud Schmitt is a professor of American Studies at the University of Pau, France. His field of research is contemporary American literature and he has worked extensively on the concepts of autofiction and self-narration for almost two decades. His book, The Photographer as Autobiographer, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hybridity in Life Writing
Book Subtitle: Combining Text and Images
Editors: Arnaud Schmitt
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51804-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51803-4Published: 29 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51806-5Due: 30 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51804-1Published: 28 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, Literature, general, Audio-Visual Culture