The speech-gesture complex

The speech-gesture complex: modernism, theatre, cinema

by Paraskeva, Anthony

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This new 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, P…

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  • Full title :The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.

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This new 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.

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  • Publication Date:2013

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 199 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780748684908, 0748684905, 9780748684892, 0748684891
  • oclc:ocn967385808
  • LC Classification:PN682.G48
  • Dewey Decimal:809/.933561

Table of Contents

Introduction -- James Joyce -- Wyndham Lewis -- The transition to sound -- Samuel Beckett.

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Subjects

Gesture in literature Gesture in motion pictures Modernism (Literature) Modernisme (Littérature) Parole et gestes Speech and gesture

Writers

Paraskeva, Anthony

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