Rochelle Rives's Books

A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression. Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modernist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people. Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's face, Rives reasons that modernist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W. H. Auden's aging face, and Cindy Sherman's recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modernist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Three stories of romance capture the spirit of the holiday season.

Publisher Description

A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women's lives.

Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

Caroline Hanley has no memory of the brutal murder of her parents or of her abduction by Apache renegades. Living as one of them, she resigns herself to a union with a brave she does not love--until fate intervenes in the person of Ross Bennett. Part Apache himself, Ross undertakes the mission to rescue her, unaware that the beautiful, young woman will steal his heart.

This work bridges a number of fields in the humanities to examine how modernist representations demonstrate the limits of facial expressivity as a marker of the true qualities of a person"--

Book's by Rochelle Rives

The New Physiognomy

The New Physiognomy

Holiday Cheer

Holiday Cheer

The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan

The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan

Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice

Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice

Modernist Impersonalities

Modernist Impersonalities

Rapture Untamed

Rapture Untamed

The New Physiognomy

The New Physiognomy

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