Fictions of legibility : the human face and body in modern German novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin /

"Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As well as engaging the tools and methods of literary analysis, the study uses a cultural studies ap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoicea, Gabriela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Temas:
German literature > History and criticism.
Fiction > History and criticism.
Face in literature.
Body language in literature.
Littérature allemande > Histoire et critique.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Visage dans la littérature.
Langage du corps dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Body language in literature
Face in literature
Fiction
German literature
Body Language In Literature.
Body.
Cultural History.
European Fiction.
Facial Expression In Literature.
German Literature.
Human Body In Literature.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Physiognomy In Literature.
Racism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Historical Background
  • The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771)
  • Historical Background
  • The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897)
  • The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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