{"product_id":"the-face-and-faciality-in-alice-hazard-9781843845874","title":"The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390","description":"In medieval French literature, faces feature heavily as markers of identity, mood, class, status, and even humanity. The information that they convey can be strategically concealed and revealed, but they are always understood to be legible.\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the face as a medieval literary motif and as a modern phenomenon, charting its limits and interrogating the idea of face as a universal signifier. It examines what happens when faces are not legible, when they are found on non-human surfaces, and when they migrate across the human body. It looks at faciality in a series of texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, moving from Arthurian tales, through the \u003ci\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/i\u003e to the fabliaux, as well as examining fourteenth-century manuscripts in which faces appear as disembodied doodles. Reading these texts in conjunction with twentieth-century theories of face and faciality, and considering the ideas behind twenty-first-century face recognition technology, this book argues that faces in the popular imagination tell us less about identity than they do about how we understand and interact with the world around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALICE HAZARD teaches in the Department of French at King's College London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Hazard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843845873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843845874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Alice Hazard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982945452287,"sku":"9781843845874","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70815e67-3f97-40d4-9e20-b61a3451d059.jpg?v=1683263826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-face-and-faciality-in-alice-hazard-9781843845874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}