title: Intermedial Connections: Literature and Photography (The Phenomenon of Photography in the Novel “In Memory of Memory. Romance” by Maria M. Stepanova)
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metadata.value: Wang, Zixuan
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metadata.value: 2024-10-04T16:17:44Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Wang, Z. (2024). Intermedial Connections: Literature and Photography (The Phenomenon of Photography in the Novel “In Memory of Memory. Romance” by Maria M. Stepanova). The World of Russian Word, (4), 77–86. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu30.2023.409
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu30.2023.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47637
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metadata.value: The author argues that visual media, including photography, converted into textual form, are increasingly intertwined with non-fiction. Among the examples is the philosophical and documentary novel by Maria M. Stepanova “In Memory of Memory. Romance” (2017). Thе article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of photography in the novel “In Memory of Memory”, in which photographic images receive a verbal description (i. e. the textualization of photography). This type of text is defined both as ekphrasis (Nina V. Braginskaya, James Heffernan, Alina Banea, etc.) and meta-photographic text (Marianne Hirsch). For analysis, hermeneutic, typological, cultural and historical research methods, as well as the method of analysis and synthesis, are used. The theoretical basis of the article is the concept of postmemory by M. Hirsch, the concept of places of memory by Pierre Nora, the theory of photography by Susan Sontag and the concept of “punctum” by Roland Barthes. The novelty of the approach lies in the analysis of the phenomenon of photography in the novel in the aspect of textualization of the photographic image. The author comes to the conclusion that textual presentation has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that textualization of the photographic image ensures compliance with the laws of space-time and gives an idea of the context of photographs. The main drawback is rooted in the subjectivity of the author’s description and, as a consequence, its one-sidedness. It seems that the aesthetic specificity of spontaneous and staged photography is manifested in their verbal description. Thus, meta-photographic text, like photography, plays an important role in the recording and transmission of memory and postmemory.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: The World of Russian Word;Issue 4
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metadata.value: Maria M. Stepanova
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metadata.value: “In Memory of Memory”
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metadata.value: textualization of the photographic image
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metadata.value: memory
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metadata.value: postmemory
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metadata.value: Intermedial Connections: Literature and Photography (The Phenomenon of Photography in the Novel “In Memory of Memory. Romance” by Maria M. Stepanova)
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