Anti-portraits : : poetics of the face in modern English, Polish and Russian literature (1835-1965) / / by Kamila Pawlikowska.
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resi...
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Pawlikowska, Kamila, author. Anti-portraits : poetics of the face in modern English, Polish and Russian literature (1835-1965) / by Kamila Pawlikowska. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill : Rodopi, 2015. ©2015 1 online resource (250 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; Volume 185 Description based upon print version of record. English Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism. Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- George Eliot and Tolstoy: The Human Face – Substance or Spirit? -- Poe and Gogol: The Face as Principle of Order -- Gombrowicz and Woolf: The Face as Culture -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Physiognomy in literature. Face in literature. Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. 90-04-30225-5 Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 185. |
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