Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-36901-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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 Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Virginia Woolf, Debora Vogel, Sir Cecil Beaton, Theodore Wladyslaw Benda, and Edward Gordon Craig. Teresa Brus 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bru¿, Teresa

Brus, Teresa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Commitment to Face.- Chapter 2: Stanislaw 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 Wladyslaw 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Teresa Brus is Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at Wroclaw 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).