Face forms in life-writing of the interwar years / Teresa Bruś.
2023
PN56.F24
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Title
Face forms in life-writing of the interwar years / Teresa Bruś.
Author
Bruś, Teresa, author.
ISBN
9783031368998 (electronic bk.)
3031368991 (electronic bk.)
9783031368981
3031368983
3031368991 (electronic bk.)
9783031368981
3031368983
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-36899-8 doi
Call Number
PN56.F24
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93592
Summary
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected in media images. Focusing on the dynamic period of the interwar years, it explores a range of case studies in Poland, UK, and the US, and examines artists like Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Virginia Woolf, Debora Vogel, Sir Cecil Beaton, Theodore Władysław Benda, and Edward Gordon Craig. Teresa Bruś argues that these writers and photographers defended the face against threats from modern life -- not least, the media. She focuses on transformations of the face in life writing across a range of media and draws attention to the artists' autobiographical narratives. Teresa Bruś is Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at Wrocław University, Poland. She has published on various aspects of life writing and photography in journals, including Biography, European Journal of Life Writing, Prose Studies, and Connotations. She is the author of Life Writing as Self-Collecting in the 1930s: Cecil Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice (2012).
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Includes bibliorgaphical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 24, 2023).
Series
Palgrave studies in life writing, 2730-9193
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Commitment to Face
Chapter 2: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: The Increase and Excess of Facial Expression
Chapter 3: Virginia Woolf and Debora Vogel: A Season of Fragments
Chapter 4: False Faces of Władysław Teodor Benda and Edward Gordon Craig.
Chapter 5: Sir Cecil Beaton and the Art of Modern Façade
Chapter 6: Massification of Faces in Lilliput and Picture Post
Chapter 7 Conclusions.
Chapter 2: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: The Increase and Excess of Facial Expression
Chapter 3: Virginia Woolf and Debora Vogel: A Season of Fragments
Chapter 4: False Faces of Władysław Teodor Benda and Edward Gordon Craig.
Chapter 5: Sir Cecil Beaton and the Art of Modern Façade
Chapter 6: Massification of Faces in Lilliput and Picture Post
Chapter 7 Conclusions.