Photography in Fiction. Co-editor: Silke Horstkotte. Spec. issue of Poetics Today, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2008.

The essays in Photography in Fiction build on twentieth-century debates relating to photography to reexamine and reframe the oft-repeated associations between photography and memory, death, identity, or witnessing. Taken together, the articles invite reconsideration of some of the most popular notions informing the study of photography in the belief that such investigations will lead to alternative approaches to word-and-image relations and, in particular, those between photography and fiction.

Table of Contents

Horstkotte, Silke and Nancy Pedri. “Introduction: Photographic Interventions” 1-29.

Photography as a Critical Idiom

Louvel, Liliane. “Photography as Critical Idiom and Intermedial Criticism.” 31-48.

Horstkotte, Silke. “Photo-Text Topographies: Photography and the Representation of Space in W. G. Sebald and Monika Moron.” 49-78.

Moving Beyond

Duttlinger, Carolin. “Imaginary Encounters: Walter Benjamin and the Aura of Photography.” 79-101.

Hirsch, Marianne. “The Generation of Postmemory.” 103-128.

Anderson, Mark M. “Documents, Photography, Postmemory: Alexander Kluge, W. G. Sebald and the German Family.” 129-153.

The Photograph: A Textual Excess?

Pedri, Nancy. “Documenting the Fictions of Reality.” 155-173.

Adams, Timothy Dow. “Photographs on the Walls of Fiction.” 175-196.

Long, J. J. “Paratextual Profusion: Photography and Text in Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer.” 197-224.