New Physiognomy

Face, Form, and Modern Expression
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4838-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Hopkins Studies in Modernism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rives, Rochelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. What's in a Face?
Chapter 1. Facing Wilde; or, Emotion's Image
Chapter 2. Realist Prosopagnosia; or, Face Blindness in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
Chapter 3. Nothing "Conclusive": Optics as Ethics in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
Chapter 4. Modernist Prosopopoeia; or, Making Faces
Chapter 5. Unreadable Persons: The "Face-Scape" of Old Age
Epilogue. "Getting Out" of the Face
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rives, Rochelle
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.

Rochelle Rives 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.