Holdings: The speech-gesture complex :

Bibliographic Details
Main Creator:	Paraskeva, Anthony, author.
Summary:	This study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. Deploying a new theoretical term, 'the speech-gesture complex', Anthony Paraskeva identifies a relationship between speech and gesture which is neither exclusively literary nor performative and which, he argues, is fundamental to the aesthetics and politics of modernist authors. In discussions of works by Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov and Samuel Beckett, Paraskeva shows how this relationship is closely informed by their attention to the performed gestures of actors in theatre and cinema.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published / Created:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Subjects:	Speech and gesture. Gesture in literature. Gesture in motion pictures. Modernism (Literature)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index. Physical description: vi, 199 pages ; 25 cm. more
ISBN:	9780748684892 0748684891