Narcisse et la photographie. De l’objectivation à l’objectivité
Narcissus and Photography. From Objectification to Objectivity
Author(s): Nikol DziubSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Photography, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: photography; literature; Narcissus; image; imagination
Summary/Abstract: Baudelaire blamed the bourgeois society and its photographic narcissism which leads to a perversion of the mythical posture and to a loss of consciousness of the ontological dissimilarity between reality and its image. That is why literature has to develop the imagination of the photographic image, which is both useful and magical, both referential and wondrous. Writers of the romantic era may disdain or admire photography, but they all experience the photographic objectivity and thus develop an antidote to the vain objectification of the collective Narcissus.
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 45-54
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French
