Screen LibraryThe new physiognomy : face, form, and modern expression /
"This work bridges a number of fields in the humanities to examine how modernist representations demonstrate the limits of facial expressivity as a marker of the true qualities of a person"--
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2024] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hopkins studies in modernism
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| Summary: |
"This work bridges a number of fields in the humanities to examine how modernist representations demonstrate the limits of facial expressivity as a marker of the true qualities of a person"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421448381 1421448386 9781421448374 1421448378 |
| Index Number: | BF851 |
| CLC: | B991-05 |
| Call Number: | B991-05/R623 |
| Contents: |
What's in a Face? -- Facing Wilde; or, Emotion's Image -- Realist Prosopagnosia; or, Face Blindness in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie -- Nothing "Conclusive": Optics as Ethics in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent -- Modernist Prosopopoeia; or, Making Faces -- Unreadable Persons: The "Face-Scape" of Old Age -- "Getting Out" of the Face |