New Physiognomy - Face, Form, and Modern Expression

Informationen zum Autor Rochelle Rives (NEW YORK, NY) is a professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She is the author of Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject . Klappentext A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modernist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people.Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's face, Rives reasons that modernist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W. H. Auden's aging face, and Cindy Sherman's recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modernist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rochelle Rives, Rochelle (Borough of Manhattan Community Co Rives
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781421448381
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4838-1
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism