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Fictions of legibility : the human face and body in modern German novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin / Gabriela Stoicea.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Lettre (Transcript (Firm))Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (197 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839447208
  • 9783839447208
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 833.009 23
LOC classification:
  • PT741 .S86 2020eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) -- Historical Background -- The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897) -- The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "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 multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue."-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) -- Historical Background -- The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897) -- The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

"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 multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue."-- Provided by publisher

In English, with quoted passages in German.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 07, 2020).

Open Access EbpS

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