Anti Portraits Poetics Of The Face In Modern English Polish And Russian Literature 1835 1965
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Anti Portraits Poetics Of The Face In Modern English Polish And Russian Literature 1835 1965
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Author : Kamila Pawlikowska
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Anti Portraits Poetics Of The Face In Modern English Polish And Russian Literature 1835 1965 written by Kamila Pawlikowska and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Reading Portrait Photographs In Proust Kafka And Woolf
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Author : Marit Grotta
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Reading Portrait Photographs In Proust Kafka And Woolf written by Marit Grotta and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with categories.
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. Combining perspectives from literary, visual and media studies, Marit Grotta discusses these writers' ambivalent views on portrait photographs and the uncertain status of technical images in the early twentieth century more generally. In reconsidering the attention paid to analogue photographs in literature, this book throws light on both modernist reactions to portrait photography and on our relationships to photographs today.
Literature And Ageing
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Author : Elizabeth Barry
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Literature And Ageing written by Elizabeth Barry and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
The Routledge History Of Literature In English
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Author : Ronald Carter
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Routledge History Of Literature In English written by Ronald Carter and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with English language categories.
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
The End And The Beginning
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Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2010
The End And The Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Poetics Of Power In Augustan Rome
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Author : Nandini B. Pandey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-11
The Poetics Of Power In Augustan Rome written by Nandini B. Pandey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Architecture categories.
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
The Ridiculous Jew
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Author : Gary Rosenshield
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-25
The Ridiculous Jew written by Gary Rosenshield and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly employed. Rather, he examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ideological agendas of each writer. What distinguishes this book from others is that it explores the problems that arise when an ethnic stereotype is so fully incorporated into a work of art that it takes on a life of its own, often undermining the intentions of its author as well as many of the defining elements of the stereotype itself. With each these writers, the Jewish stereotype precipitates a literary transformation, taking their work into an uncomfortable space for the author and a challenging one for readers.
High Low
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Author : Kirk Varnedoe
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 1990
High Low written by Kirk Varnedoe and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
Readins in high & low
Comparing The Literatures
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Author : David Damrosch
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Comparing The Literatures written by David Damrosch and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
The Superstitious Muse
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Author : David M. Bethea
language : en
Publisher: Studies in Russian and Slavic
Release Date : 2009
The Superstitious Muse written by David M. Bethea and has been published by Studies in Russian and Slavic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of erasure and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad). This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies.