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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, 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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
27 June 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837647204
Format: Paperback
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Gabriela Stoicea (PhD) is a scholar at Clemson University, USA. Her research focuses on the 18th, 19th, and 20th 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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Historical Background 21
The Body in Perspective: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) 49
Historical Background 83
The Body as "Versable" Type: Friedrich Spielhagen's Zum Zeitvertreib (1897) 107
The Soul-Stripped Body: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) 133
Conclusions 171
Bibliography 175
Index 189