Introduction

Introduction

“The face is our most potent symbol of personality,” wrote Mina Loy in the opening [...]

Nose Perception in Modernist Writing: What’s That Between Your Eyes?

Just at the centre of our vision, yet subconsciously ignored, the nose is one of [...]

Parts of a Body’s Head: Laura Riding Jackson’s Fragmentation of Face

To say that a poet, of any kind, might avoid being canonized is perhaps to [...]

Facing War: Kati Horna’s Portraiture Experiments and the Spanish Civil War

Her face weary and wary, the mother stands with her one foot hoisted onto a [...]

“The dead face”: A process of haunted recognition in May Sinclair

I lift the white sheet And uncover the dead face, White among the white roses, [...]

“Look at the wretch’s face!”: Considering the Face in Rashid Jahan’s “Woh”

One of the most analyzed works of the radical Urdu writer Rashid Jahan is her [...]

Dr. Marija Girevska on Translating Ulysses

FM: Translating Ulysses seems like a daunting, almost-insurmountable task. What attracted you to translating it? [...]

Dr. Mark Braude on Kiki de Montparnasse

FM: Who was Alice Prin?  MB: Alice Prin was born in 1901 to an unwed, teenage [...]

CfP: Modernist Literature and the Face

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Clara Tice

Marti Savage (Tice’s great-niece) illustrated Clara Tice’s eccentricity in a singular question during our phone [...]

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