Anti-portraits : poetics of the face in modern English, Polish and Russian literature, 1835-1965 /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pawlikowska, Kamila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill : Rodopi, 2015.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; volume 185.
Temas:
1800-1999
Physiognomy in literature.
Face in literature.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Physiognomonie dans la littérature.
Visage dans la littérature.
Littérature > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Face in literature
Literature, Modern
Physiognomy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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