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oapen-20.500.12657-471222022-01-25T10:57:22Z Fictions of Legibility Stoicea, Gabriela German Novels European Fiction Physiognomy In Literature Facial Expression In Literature Human Body In Literature Body Language In Literature Literature Body Cultural History German Literature Racism Literary Studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history 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 approach to offer a constellation of ideas and polemics surrounding the readability of the human body. By including discussions from the medical sciences, epistemology, and aesthetics, the book draws out the multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue. 2021-03-09T10:26:13Z 2021-03-09T10:26:13Z 2020 book ONIX_20210309_9783839447208_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47122 eng Lettre application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ts4720_1.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c transcript Verlag 200 Bielefeld open access
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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 approach to offer a constellation of ideas and polemics surrounding the readability of the human body. By including discussions from the medical sciences, epistemology, and aesthetics, the book draws out the multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue.
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