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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill : Rodopi,
2015.
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Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
volume 185. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.