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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Università degli Studi di Torino
2019-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/3449 |