Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Dream of Transparent Flesh -- The Physiognomic Self: Surface...
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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Dream of Transparent Flesh -- The Physiognomic Self: Surface and Depth -- Breaking the Spell -- A-physiognomic Portraits: A Short History -- Outside the Physiognomic Culture -- 1: George Eliot and Tolstoy: The Human Face - Substance or Spirit? -- Introduction -- George Eliot: The Face on a Dissection Table -- "A Mischievous and Misleading Error" -- Nature's Way: Beauty like Music -- Two Visions of Beauty: Eliot and Spencer -- From Genetic Make-up to Electric Smile -- Hallucinating about Race -- The English Face and the Perpendicular Profile -- Leo Tolstoy: The Face as a Refuge -- How to Disembody the Body? -- Beauty as Commodity -- An Ethical View: The Concave Face -- The Face and the Flesh -- Love and Light: Piercing the Empirical Crust -- Reminders for the Living -- Conclusion -- 2: Poe and Gogol: The Face as Principle of Order -- Introduction -- Poe: The Face Confiscated from Nature -- Poe and Phrenology -- The Face as a Spectacle -- The Architectonics of Usher's Face -- Superhuman Beauty: Ligeia -- Animi sedem esse in oculis? - The Eyeless Face and Other Games -- "King Pest" as an Allegory of Chaos -- Gogol: De-civilising the Face -- If You Fail to Mention Your Hero's Nose … -- "The Portrait": A Battle of Semblance and Ideal -- The Nose contra Être Fixé -- The Nose contra "Aesthetic Fascism" -- Faces-Mirrors -- The Face as Performance -- Conclusion -- 3: Gombrowicz and Woolf: The Face as Culture -- Introduction -- Gombrowicz: Immaturity and Form - The Face as a Combat Zone -- "Scenes of Facing" -- Figure I: A Tale-telling Face -- Figure II: Allegories of Personhood: Face and Backside -- Figure III: Face-to-Face as a Duel Figure IV: Configurations of Deformation: Mug-Face-Mug -- Figure V: Cultured Grimaces -- Figure VII: What Lurks behind the Mask? -- Virginia Woolf: Poetics of the Face -- From Tradition to Abstraction -- Chasing the Butterfly: "An Unwritten Novel" -- The Face and Self: Together but Apart -- Surface and Depth: Volatile Bodies -- The Meretricious Face -- The Face Effect in Orlando -- Painting the Flesh - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell -- Of the Photographic Gaze: Hunting for the Self -- Victorian Split Subjects -- Emotion in Cinema: Lawnmower contra Vronsky's Kiss -- Conclusion -- 4: Conclusion -- What Can a Face Do to a Text? -- Principles of Disorder in an A-physiognomic Text -- Spatial Variations: 'Western' versus 'Eastern' Poetics of the Face -- Beyond the Middle View: Faces Seen Anew -- Le Corps-sans-organes contra Physiognomics -- Works cited -- Index
""Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835â€"1965)""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Dream of Transparent Flesh""; ""The Physiognomic Self: Surface and Depth""; ""Breaking the Spell""; ""A-physiognomic Portraits: A Short History""; ""Outside the Physiognomic Culture""; ""1: George Eliot and Tolstoy: The Human Face â€" Substance or Spirit?""; ""Introduction""; ""George Eliot: The Face on a Dissection Table""; ""“A Mischievous and Misleading Errorâ€�""
""Nature’s Way: Beauty like Music""""Two Visions of Beauty: Eliot and Spencer""; ""From Genetic Make-up to Electric Smile""; ""Hallucinating about Race""; ""The English Face and the Perpendicular Profile""; ""Leo Tolstoy: The Face as a Refuge""; ""How to Disembody the Body?""; ""Beauty as Commodity""; ""An Ethical View: The Concave Face""; ""The Face and the Flesh""; ""Love and Light: Piercing the Empirical Crust""; ""Reminders for the Living""; ""Conclusion""; ""2: Poe and Gogol: The Face as Principle of Order""; ""Introduction""; ""Poe: The Face Confiscated from Nature""
""Gombrowicz: Immaturity and Form â€" The Face as a Combat Zone""""“Scenes of Facingâ€�""; ""Figure I: A Tale-telling Face""; ""Figure II: Allegories of Personhood: Face and Backside""; ""Figure III: Face-to-Face as a Duel""; ""Figure IV: Configurations of Deformation: Mug-Face-Mug""; ""Figure V: Cultured Grimaces""; ""Figure VII: What Lurks behind the Mask?""; ""Virginia Woolf: Poetics of the Face""; ""From Tradition to Abstraction""; ""Chasing the Butterfly: “An Unwritten Novelâ€�""; ""The Face and Self: Together but Apart""; ""Surface and Depth: Volatile Bodies""
""The Meretricious Face""""The Face Effect in Orlando""; ""Painting the Flesh â€" Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell""; ""Of the Photographic Gaze: Hunting for the Self""; ""Victorian Split Subjects""; ""Emotion in Cinema: Lawnmower contra Vronsky’s Kiss""; ""Conclusion""; ""4: Conclusion""; ""What Can a Face Do to a Text?""; ""Principles of Disorder in an A-physiognomic Text""; ""Spatial Variations: ‘Western’ versus ‘Eastern’ Poetics of the Face""; ""Beyond the Middle View: Faces Seen Anew""; ""Le Corps-sans-organes contra Physiognomics""; ""Works cited""; ""Index""
