Face and form : physiognomy in literary modernism /

"Anca Parvulescu's prehistory of facial recognition technologies retells the story of literary modernism through the prism of the human face. She constructs an arc between twenty first-century conversations about the politics of the face and those physiognomic discourses that reflect moder...

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Main Author: Parvulescu, Anca (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Anca Parvulescu's prehistory of facial recognition technologies retells the story of literary modernism through the prism of the human face. She constructs an arc between twenty first-century conversations about the politics of the face and those physiognomic discourses that reflect modernism's long, complex and fascinating cultural history"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 196 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781009599801
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DOI:10.1017/9781009599801