UID:
edocfu_9959792013202883
Format:
1 online resource (200 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-4720-8
Series Statement:
Lettre
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, 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:
Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 Historical Background 21 The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) 49 Historical Background 83 The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897) 107 The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) 133 Conclusions 171 Bibliography 175 Index 189
,
In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-4720-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Literary criticism.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Literary criticism.
DOI:
10.14361/9783839447208
