Author: Gilbert Malcolm Fess
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
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The Correspondence of Physical and Material Factors with Character in Balzac
Author: Gilbert Malcolm Fess
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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University of Pennsylvania Bulletin
Author: University of Pennsylvania
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Face Value
Author: Christopher Rivers
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports to "read" the body as an index to spiritual, intellectual, or moral qualities, had its greatest proponent in the eighteenth century Swiss theoretician Johann Caspar Lavater. In addition to closely reading the fictional narratives of Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola, the author offers a critical reading of Lavater's work. He looks at some of the most compelling and explicit literary treatments of physiognomy in the French canon, suggesting that the ways authors use physiognomical ideas to render the world "hyper-significant" poses fundamental questions about the nature of narrative itself. He also shows how physiognomy serves almost invariably as a tool of sexism as it attempts to ascribe intellectual or moral qualities on the basis of corporal features. Linked by more than their physiognomical themes, these novels share similar dynamics of reading, rhetoric, and representation.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports to "read" the body as an index to spiritual, intellectual, or moral qualities, had its greatest proponent in the eighteenth century Swiss theoretician Johann Caspar Lavater. In addition to closely reading the fictional narratives of Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola, the author offers a critical reading of Lavater's work. He looks at some of the most compelling and explicit literary treatments of physiognomy in the French canon, suggesting that the ways authors use physiognomical ideas to render the world "hyper-significant" poses fundamental questions about the nature of narrative itself. He also shows how physiognomy serves almost invariably as a tool of sexism as it attempts to ascribe intellectual or moral qualities on the basis of corporal features. Linked by more than their physiognomical themes, these novels share similar dynamics of reading, rhetoric, and representation.
Balzac's Method of Presenting Character
Author: Peter William Lock
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Modern Language Journal
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
A Study of the Metaphorical Texture in Balzac's Comédie Humaine
Author: Raymond A. Jakwerth
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The Life and Works of José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi
Author: Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151282044X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Mexican literary and political figure of the early nineteenth century whose writings present the best existing portrayal of Spanish colonial society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151282044X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Mexican literary and political figure of the early nineteenth century whose writings present the best existing portrayal of Spanish colonial society.
The Life and Dramatic Works of Gertudis Gómez de Avellaneda...
Author: Edwin Bucher Williams
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch and the French Theatre ...
Author: Anthony Sylvain Corbière
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Reading Faces
Author: Leslie Zebrowitz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Do we read character in faces? What information do faces actually provide? What are the social and psychological consequences of reading character in faces? Zebrowitz unmasks the face and provides the first systematic, scientific account of our tendency to judge people by their appearance. Offering an in-depth discussion of two appearance qualities that influence our impressions of others—“baby-faceness” and “attractiveness”—and an analysis of these impressions, Zebrowitz has written an accessible and valuable book for professionals and general readers alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Do we read character in faces? What information do faces actually provide? What are the social and psychological consequences of reading character in faces? Zebrowitz unmasks the face and provides the first systematic, scientific account of our tendency to judge people by their appearance. Offering an in-depth discussion of two appearance qualities that influence our impressions of others—“baby-faceness” and “attractiveness”—and an analysis of these impressions, Zebrowitz has written an accessible and valuable book for professionals and general readers alike.