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Jeffrey Ford's The Physiognomy is a strange little book.
A Sunday Morning "Ooh, It's Sunny" Catch Up Review: The Physiognomy sbisson 2003
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Necker on "Religious Opinions," and Lavater's "Physiognomy;" wrote a volume of "Original Stories from Real Life for Children," and compiled a
Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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Her version of Lavater's "Physiognomy," now unknown, was but an abridgment.
Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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Similarly, the 1871 book New Physiognomy, written by the American phrenologist Samuel Roberts Wells, described the Irish woman as being governed “by the lower or animal passions,” “seeking her chief pleasure from things physical and animal,” and unable to see “beauty in that which can not be eaten or used for the gratification of the bodily appetites or passions.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Thus far I have partial notes and a title; "Pornography; an Exposition into the Physiognomy of the Real".
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The Physiognomy, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press) - You'll be hard-pressed to find a more audaciously imaginative author than Jeffrey Ford, and for proof look no further than his Well-Built City trilogy.
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The most challenging interpretation of the music remains Theodor W. Adorno's monograph, "Mahler: A Musical - Physiognomy" (1960).
The Contemporary Appeal of Gustav MahlerMahler and Beyond 2010
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The most challenging interpretation of the music remains Theodor W. Adorno's monograph, "Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy" (1992).
A Fierce Enthusiasm Leon Botstein 2010
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Based in Aristotelian physiognomical inference (Prior Analytics II 27, 70b 7 – 4 and the Ps-Aristotelian third century b.c. e. treatise Physiognomy) was rooted in many disciplines, such as medicine (Galen), rhetorics (Polemo), and ethics.
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The Semiotics of Gender: Physiognomy and Self-Fashioning in the Second Century c. e.
knight17 commented on the word Physiognomy
facial features; superficial appearance; analysis of personal traits based on one's facial features, countenance etc
June 18, 2009