Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004302259)

Vendor: Kamila Pawlikowska
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Format: Paperback
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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)

$106.00

Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)

$106.00
Format: Paperback
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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) examines prose portraits which challenge the belief that the face reflects character. Their authors consider physiognomy as a form of aesthetic dictatorship conducive to stereotyping and racism.

Author: Kamila Pawlikowska
ISBN-10: 9004302255
ISBN-13: 9789004302259
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.99lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.50d
By Kamila Pawlikowska
By Kamila Pawlikowska
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Kamila Pawlikowska, Ph.D. (2013), graduated from the University of Kent (UK) and is presently a British Academy/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Seikei University in Tokyo. Her current research project examines reception of Japan in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.

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