Format:
1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783839447208
Series Statement:
Lettre
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) -- Historical Background -- The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897) -- The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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, semiotics, 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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837647204
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783837647204
Language:
English
Keywords:
Rassismus
;
Literatur
;
Mimik
;
Körpersprache
;
Physiognomie
;
Körper
DOI:
10.14361/9783839447208
Author information:
Stoicea, Gabriela
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