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The Speech-Gesture Complex : Modernism, Theatre, Cinema

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Paraskeva, Anthony
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (209 pages).
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Contents
Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; 1 JAMES JOYCE; 2 WYNDHAM LEWIS; 3 THE TRANSITION TO SOUND; 4 SAMUEL BECKETT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; index.
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. Key Features. Provides new close readings of major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, James, Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with both theatre and cinema Establishes a new critical-theoretical category, and highlights an unexplored dialogue between Ibsen, Benjamin, Adorno, Griffith, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Brecht, Artaud, Lang, Meyerhold, Duse and Garbo Analyses central and neglected modernist texts alongside stage productions, styles of acting, film history and performance theory
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9780748684908 (electronic bk.)
0748684905 (electronic bk.)
9780748695249 (electronic bk.)
0748695249 (electronic bk.)
9780748684915
0748684913
9780748684892
0748684891
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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