O eseistycznym usuwaniu obrazów twarzy: Ulicami Londynu: przygoda (1927) Virginii Woolf i Akacje kwitną (1935) Debory Vogel

Abstract

The paper On Essayistic Erasure of the Images of the Face: Virginia Woolf‘s “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” and Debora Vogel’s “Accacias Blooming” addresses Woolf’s and Vogel’s essayistic acts of visual experimentation challenging the conventional “face-to-face” optics. The paper argues that both nomadic auteurs decompose and erase images of the face to transgress the visible and unified subject. The essaysitic “I”s leave their domestic habitus “without the face” to explore the cityscapes. I argue that by means of such departures they can exercise potent strategies of indeterminacy, even rebellion. Gesturing towards new paradigms of the face, they transform the essay.

Keywords

• Virginia Woolf
• Street Haunting
• Debora Vogel
• Acacias Bloom essay
• face
• visual perception