… Taking into account these strong, sometimes conflicting intellectual currents, Women in
Modern Drama explores the dynamics of gender identity and family relationships in major plays …

… It shows that the debate over linguistic multiplicity has been at the heart of modern Western
… The central arguments of this book will be (1) that in the modern West, the main tendency …

… Shaftesbury even goes so far as to extend this criterion to the face as well: “He who studies
and breaks through the shell must see some way into the kernel. Other rules of physiognomy …

… I define modern visual culture as that produced by technical images and sounds:
photography and cinema are the media I will focus on in this book.8 I identify the credibility that …

… There is nothing new under the sun," the priestly writer of Quohelet says, and my rationale
for juxtaposing The King of Kings and The Passion in this chapter is to demonstrate the truth of …

… How firm, economical, and expert is the hand of the artist in drawing the physical and
behavioral physiognomy of the characters! How pointed, fluent, and zaftik (juicy) is the recon…

… But she treats the modern period as a continuation of the earlier period, without taking into
account the most recent ramifications of the Orphic theme such as the impact of new forms of …

… It is significant that Balázs quotes Goethe here, rather that the acknowledged ‘father’ of
modern physiognomy, the Swiss writer and Protestant pastor Johann Caspar Lavater. Goethe …

… late-modern resuscitation of … kernel of truth embodied in the ‘Islamist’ or ‘radical fundamentalist’
or ‘Jihadi’ has required intensified forms of seeing that collapse sartorial, physiognomic, …