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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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 185 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ; : Brill :, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
Volume 185. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.