Author: Edmond About
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Notary's Nose
Author: Edmond About
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Notary's Nose, and Other Stories
Author: Edmond About
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Language of the Face
Author: Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262372517
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia. How do you read a face? For thousands of years, artists, philosophers, and scientists have explored the question of what our outer appearance might reveal about our inner selves. In The Language of the Face, a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi considers over a millennium’s worth of primary sources to paint a splendid portrait of the face’s cultural symbology. Gonzalez-Crussi, an acclaimed pathologist and writer, transcends disciplines with a singular balance of depth and levity. Blending literary analysis of both ancient and modern texts with the insights of medical anthropology, his narrative ranges from an investigation into “nasal semiotics”—a subject whose legacy persists most destructively in myths of racial typology—to equally astute analyses of the thrills of the erotic kiss, the diagnostic art of astrology, and the enlightening qualities of supposed ugliness. While our appearances may ultimately be no more than surface-level signifiers of identity, Gonzalez-Crussi’s work is anything but superficial in its treatment of the consummately human urge to find profound meaning amidst seemingly arbitrary attributes. As rigorously researched as it is wildly entertaining, The Language of the Face is a vibrant contribution to both the emerging field of medical humanities and the popular understanding of aesthetics and physiology at large.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262372517
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia. How do you read a face? For thousands of years, artists, philosophers, and scientists have explored the question of what our outer appearance might reveal about our inner selves. In The Language of the Face, a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi considers over a millennium’s worth of primary sources to paint a splendid portrait of the face’s cultural symbology. Gonzalez-Crussi, an acclaimed pathologist and writer, transcends disciplines with a singular balance of depth and levity. Blending literary analysis of both ancient and modern texts with the insights of medical anthropology, his narrative ranges from an investigation into “nasal semiotics”—a subject whose legacy persists most destructively in myths of racial typology—to equally astute analyses of the thrills of the erotic kiss, the diagnostic art of astrology, and the enlightening qualities of supposed ugliness. While our appearances may ultimately be no more than surface-level signifiers of identity, Gonzalez-Crussi’s work is anything but superficial in its treatment of the consummately human urge to find profound meaning amidst seemingly arbitrary attributes. As rigorously researched as it is wildly entertaining, The Language of the Face is a vibrant contribution to both the emerging field of medical humanities and the popular understanding of aesthetics and physiology at large.
The Cosmopolite
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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The Literary World
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The Nose of a Notary
Author: Edmond About
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Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. Rode
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Ecrits a Selection
Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393325287
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A major new translation of one of the most influential psychoanalytic works of modern times. Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. Yet his seemingly impenetrable writing style has kept many a reader from venturing beyond page one. This new translation of selected writings from his most famous work offers welcome access to nine of his most significant contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique. Ranging from "The Mirror Stage" to "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious," and including "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" and other papers on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice, this selection spans some thirty years of Lacan's inimitable intellectual career.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393325287
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A major new translation of one of the most influential psychoanalytic works of modern times. Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. Yet his seemingly impenetrable writing style has kept many a reader from venturing beyond page one. This new translation of selected writings from his most famous work offers welcome access to nine of his most significant contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique. Ranging from "The Mirror Stage" to "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious," and including "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" and other papers on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice, this selection spans some thirty years of Lacan's inimitable intellectual career.
Riders Dictionary, Corrected and Augmented, with the Addition of Many Hundred Words Both Out of the Law, and Out of the Latine, French, and Other Languages ... Whereunto is Joyned a Dictionary Etymological ... Now Newly Corrected and Much Augmented by Francis Holy-Oke
Author: John Rider (Bishop of Killaloe.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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