Fictions of Legibility

Gabriela Stoicea

ISBN 10: 383764720X / ISBN 13: 9783837647204

Published by Transcript Verlag Mai 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fictions of Legibility
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Mai 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383764720X
• ISBN 13: 9783837647204
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 15D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 319 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.