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 multifaceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue.
About author(s): Gabriela Stoicea is a scholar at Clemson University.
Her research focuses on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on processes of identity and knowledge formation at the intersection of literature, film, philosophy, science, and politics.
She has published articles on Sophie von La Roche, Fritz Lang, Claude Lanzmann, and Robert Musil.
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Transcript Publishing Fictions of legibility: the human face and body in modern german novels from sophie von la roche to alfred döblin/gabriela stoicea
