O eseistycznym usuwaniu obrazów twarzy: Ulicami Londynu: przygoda (1927) Virginii Woolf i Akacje kwitną (1935) Debory Vogel
On Not Showing the Face: Street Haunting (1927) by Virginia Woolf and Acacias Bloom (1935) by Debora Vogel
Author(s): Teresa BruśSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Virginia Woolf; Street Haunting; Debora Vogel; Acacias Bloom essay; face; visual perception; adventuressness; fragmentation
Summary/Abstract: The paper On Essayistic Erasure of the Images of the Face: Virginia Woolf‘s “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” and Debora Vogel’s “Accacias Blooming” addresses Woolf’s and Vogel’s essayistic acts of visual experimentation challenging the conventional “face-to-face” optics. The paper argues that both nomadic auteurs decompose and erase images of the face to transgress the visible and unified subject. The essaysitic “I”s leave their domestic habitus “without the face” to explore the cityscapes. I argue that by means of such departures they can exercise potent strategies of indeterminacy, even rebellion. Gesturing towards new paradigms of the face, they transform the essay.
Journal: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
- Issue Year: 10/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 37-49
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Polish