Abstract
Gabriela Stoicea (author)
Highlights
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin by Gabriela Stoicea”
Stoicea argues for “moments of resistance” (15) in modern German literature that responded to physiognomic discourses of their time
In undertaking closereadings and an interdisciplinary cultural study approach to the examination of the role of body descriptions, Stoicea shows how three German-speaking authors—Sophie von La Roche, Friedrich Spielhagen and Alfred Döblin—partook in physiognomic discourses of their time wrote against a monolithic semiotics on the readability of human bodies codified by the pastor and philosopher Johann Caspar Lavater that were both radicalized and instrumentalized for ideological purposes such eugenics
Summary
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin by Gabriela Stoicea”. The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin by Gabriela Stoicea, transcript, 2020.
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