. · How they are tightened and loosened. · How the lines around the mouth are softened. · How the wrinkles around the eyes can make them shine with happiness when that is the feeling the face has to express. The same features express anger and contempt, while softer features are taken to express kindness and friendliness - but note: only if the feelings also extend to the eyes. A mouth that smiles without the eyes smiling as well sends signals of falseness and unreliability. Eyebrows that rise up and down rapidly signal acceptance of social contact. If you raise your eyebrows and keep them raised for a while it signals surprise and astonishment - perhaps even indignation. When the raised eyebrows are used along with a wink you are flirting. This can cause problems. For example, in Japan where it is considered very inappropriate, practically improper, to use eyebrow raising at all.
continue as previously. Kitty goes with her mother to a resort at a German spa to recover from her ill health. There they meet the Pietist Madame Stahl and the saintly Varenka, her adopted daughter. Influenced by Varenka, Kitty becomes extremely pious, but is disillusioned by her father`s criticism. She then returns to Moscow. Part 3 Levin continues his work on his large country estate, a setting closely tied to his spiritual thoughts and struggles. Levin wrestles with the idea of falseness, wondering how he should go about ridding himself of it, and criticising what he feels is falseness in others. He develops ideas relating to agriculture and the unique relationship between the agricultural labourer and his native land and culture. He believes that the agricultural reforms of Europe will not work in Russia because of the unique culture and personality of the Russian peasant. Stiva stays with Levin on his country estate when he makes a sale of a plot of land,
Historiographic metafiction – term coined by Linda Hutcheon. Tightly connected to magic realism; contrast between history and story, can we ever truly know the truth or meaning behind the representation of history, and what the truth really is. Hutcheon: “there is no truth or falseness per se, there are only other people’s truths”. Viewing great historical events from the perspective of small individuals. Combines history and the present; goes back to the beginning of history of the particular story, to
According to Hutcheon, in "A Poetics of Postmodernism", works of historiographic metafiction are "those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages". Historiographic metafiction is a quintessentially postmodern art form, with a reliance upon textual play, parody and historical re-conceptualization. Hutcheon: there is no truth or falseness per se, there're only other people's truth History as a collection of representations. History vs story. History is a human construct. Can we know the past today except through representations? Can we know the truth? 19. Historiographic Metafiction and Magic realism in the writings of Salman Rushdie.HM: big events from point of view of small individual. Goes back to the beginnning of his story, well before his birth, 1915