Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
ISBN 13 : 9780748684892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Book Synopsis The Speech-gesture Complex by : Anthony Paraskeva
Download or read book The Speech-gesture Complex written by Anthony Paraskeva and published by Edinburgh Critical Studies in. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.