Anti-portraits
| Titel: | Anti-portraits : poetics of the face in modern English, Polish and Russian literature, 1835-1965 / by Kamila Pawlikowska |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015] |
| Umfang: | XII, 238 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. ; 185 |
| ISBN: | 9789004302259 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. ix
- List of Abbreviations
- p. x
- Introduction
- p. 1
- The Dream of Transparent Flesh
- p. 2
- The Physiognomic Self: Surface and Depth
- p. 8
- Breaking the Spell
- p. 16
- A-physiognomic Portraits: A Short History
- p. 22
- Outside the Physiognomic Culture
- p. 26
- 1
- George Eliot and Tolstoy: The Human Face - Substance or Spirit?
- p. 31
- Introduction
- p. 31
- George Eliot: The Face on a Dissection Table
- p. 33
- "A Mischievous and Misleading Error"
- p. 33
- Nature's Way: Beauty like Music
- p. 35
- Two Visions of Beauty: Eliot and Spencer
- p. 39
- From Genetic Make-up to Electric Smile
- p. 43
- Hallucinating about Race
- p. 48
- The English Face and the Perpendicular Profile
- p. 54
- Leo Tolstoy: The Face as a Refuge
- p. 57
- How to Disembody the Body?
- p. 57
- Beauty as Commodity
- p. 59
- An Ethical View: The Concave Face
- p. 64
- The Face and the Flesh
- p. 67
- Love and Light: Piercing the Empirical Crust
- p. 70
- Reminders for the Living
- p. 76
- Conclusion
- p. 80
- 2
- Poe and Gogol: The Face as Principle of Order
- p. 84
- Introduction
- p. 84
- Poe: The Face Confiscated from Nature
- p. 87
- Poe and Phrenology
- p. 87
- The Face as a Spectacle
- p. 89
- The Architectonics of Usher's Face
- p. 93
- Superhuman Beauty: Ligeia
- p. 97
- Animi sedem esse in oculis? - The Eyeless Face and Other Games
- p. 106
- "King Pest" as an Allegory of Chaos
- p. 111
- Gogol: De-civilising the Face
- p. 113
- If You Fail to Mention Your Hero's Nose...
- p. 113
- "The Portrait": A Battle of Semblance and Ideal
- p. 115
- The Nose contra Être Fixé
- p. 119
- The Nose contra "Aesthetic Fascism"
- p. 124
- Faces-Mirrors
- p. 128
- The Face as Performance
- p. 130
- Conclusion
- p. 132
- 3
- Gombrowicz and Woolf: The Face as Culture
- p. 136
- Introduction
- p. 136
- Gombrowicz: Immaturity and Form - The Face as a Combat Zone
- p. 139
- "Scenes of Facing"
- p. 139
- Figure I
- A Tale-telling Face
- p. 140
- Figure II
- Allegories of Personhood: Face and Backside
- p. 141
- Figure III
- Face-to-Face as a Duel
- p. 144
- Figure IV
- Configurations of Deformation: Mug-Face-Mug
- p. 146
- Figure V
- Cultured Grimaces
- p. 150
- Figure VI
- The Face as Formal Imperative
- p. 154
- Figure VII
- What lurks behind the Mask?
- p. 157
- Virginia Woolf: Poetics of the Face
- p. 159
- From Tradition to Abstraction
- p. 159
- Chasing the Butterfly: "An Unwritten Novel"
- p. 161
- The Face and Self: Together but Apart
- p. 166
- Surface and Depth: Volatile Bodies
- p. 169
- The Meretricious Face
- p. 170
- The Face Effect in Orlando
- p. 174
- Painting the Flesh - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
- p. 177
- Of the Photographic Gaze: Hunting for the Self
- p. 184
- Victorian Split Subjects
- p. 188
- Emotion in Cinema: Lawnmower contra Vronsky's Kiss
- p. 191
- Conclusion
- p. 194
- 4
- Conclusion
- p. 198
- What Can a Face Do to a Text?
- p. 198
- Principles of Disorder in an A-physiognomic Text
- p. 200
- Spatial Variations: 'Western' versus 'Eastern' Poetics of the Face
- p. 201
- Beyond the Middle View: Faces Seen Anew
- p. 203
- Le Corps-sans-organes contra Physiognomies
- p. 204
- Works cited
- p. 207
- Index
- p. 232
