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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 perfor…
This book explores the history of gestures in the West, from late antiquity to the heart of the Middle Ages. Unlike the ethnologist or sociologist, the historian has no direct access to the gestures of the past, but must deal with texts or images only, the representations of ges…