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The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema

Title
The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.
Author
Paraskeva, Anthony
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

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Description
vi, 199 pages; 24 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Uniform Title
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Subject
  • Speech and gesture
  • Gesture in literature
  • Gesture in motion pictures
  • Modernism (Literature)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- James Joyce -- Wyndham Lewis -- The transition to sound -- Samuel Beckett.
Call Number
JFE 14-2695
ISBN
  • 9780748684892
  • 0748684891
  • 9780748684908 (webready PDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780748684915 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
861618382
Author
Paraskeva, Anthony, author.
Title
The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 14-2695
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