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The Truth in Photography

Oxford Literary Review Volume 32, Issue 2
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

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From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never stopped asking whether there is in fact any truth at all in photography. The essays collected in this volume consider this and related questions (for example, the relationship between photography and representation, history, time, narrative, memory, mourning, and so on) through the works of Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. The volume opens with a previously untranslated essay by Derrida on photography, entitled, precisely, Aletheia (Truth), and it concludes with ‘Melville’s Couvade’, an original work of fiction on the theme of photography by David Farrell Krell.

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    Contents

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  • The Truth in Photography
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    Snapshot

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    Michael Naas
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    Aletheia

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    Jacques Derrida
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    What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer

    189
    Andrew Benjamin
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    Primal Phenomena and Photography

    203
    Elaine P. Miller
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    Dark Room Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography

    231
    Elissa Marder
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  • Fiction
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    Melville’s Couvade

    271
    David Farrell Krell
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    Michael Syrotinski, Deconstruction and the Postcolonial

    291
    Ben Grant
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    Judeities, ed. Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, Raphael Zagury-Orly

    293
    Jonathan Judaken
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    Asja Szafraniec, Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature

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    Lydia Rainford
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    Contributors

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Literary Studies
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