Name: Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (en Inglés)
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Author: Anca Parvulescu
ISBN: 9781009599795

portada Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (en Inglés)

Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Cambridge Univ Pr

Autor

Anca Parvulescu

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

206

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781009599795

Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (en Inglés)

Anca Parvulescu (Autor) · Cambridge Univ Pr · Tapa Dura

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Faces, faces, faces - faces everywhere! Modernism was obsessed with the ubiquity of the human face. Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and, later, Kōbō Abe framed their literary projects around the question of the face, its dynamic of legibility and opacity. In literary modernism, the face functioned as a proxy for form, memory, intermediality, or difference - and combinations thereof. The old pseudo-science of physiognomy, which assumed faces to be sites of legible meaning, was in the process reconfigured. Modernist faces lost their connection to interiority, but remained surfaces of reading and interpretation. As such, they also became canvases for creative appropriation, what Mina Loy called auto-facial-construction. The modernist overinvestment in faces functions as a warning against the return of physiognomy in contemporary technologies of facial recognition. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.