The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema
- Title
- The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.
- Published by
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
- Author
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Details
- 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
- Contents
- Introduction -- James Joyce -- Wyndham Lewis -- The transition to sound -- Samuel Beckett.
- Call number
- JFE 14-2695
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780748684892
- 0748684891
- 9780748684908 (webready PDF)
- 9780748684915 (epub)
- Research call number
- JFE 14-2695