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Face and form : physiognomy in literary modernism /

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"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.
Subjects:	Face in literature. Physiognomy in literature. Modernism (Literature) Visage dans la littérature. Physiognomonie dans la littérature. Modernisme (Littérature) Face in literature Modernism (Literature) > History and criticism. Physiognomy in literature Electronic books.
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