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Escribir La Propia Vida: Memoria, Confesión Y Autobiografía En Dos Textos Medievales, Maria Carmen Vera Lopez
Escribir La Propia Vida: Memoria, Confesión Y Autobiografía En Dos Textos Medievales, Maria Carmen Vera Lopez
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This thesis is a critical study based on a theoretical framework of autobiography based on the deconstruction of the idea that it existed, as a literary genre,in the Middle Ages. This work takes certain characteristics of the term “Self Writing” suggested by Foucault: the first person writing and fragmentary. This model of writing, is seen in two different perspectives in two medieval texts: Memorias by Leonor López de Córdoba and Libro rimado de palacio by Pero López de Ayala, both written in the same historical context.
A Photographer Develops: Reading Robinson, Rejlander, And Cameron, Jonathan R. Fardy
A Photographer Develops: Reading Robinson, Rejlander, And Cameron, Jonathan R. Fardy
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This study examines the historical emergence of the photographer by turning to the writings of three important photographers of the nineteenth century: Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901), Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813-1875), and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). The photographic works of each of these photographers has been the subject of much historical and interpretive analysis, but their writings have yet to receive significant scholarly attention. It is the claim of this study that this archive opens a new set of questions: What did it mean to claim: “I am a photographer” at photography’s advent? How did these individuals come to identify themselves …