Notes
1. Barthes’ development of a corporeal poetics in relation to the repudiation of his former passion for theatre is excellently elaborated in Scheie (Citation2000).
2 I take my cue here from the exhortation, ‘A horror story, the face is a horror story’ in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Deleuze and Guattari Citation1988: 168).
3. I owe this notion, as well as much insight into the representational strategies of medical illustration, to Philip Prodger's remarks on Darwin's use of illustration in ‘Photography and The Expression of the Emotion’, in Darwin et al., Citation1998.