The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.
Av: Paraskeva, Anthony [aut]
Language: English Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance: Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Beskrivning: vi, 199 sidorInnehållstyp: text Mediatyp: unmediated Bärartyp: volumeISBN: 9780748684892; 9781474473200Ämne(n): Gester | Talet i litteraturen | Film | Teater | Modernism (litteratur) | Kroppsspråk i litteraturen | SkådespelarkonstDDK-klassifikation: 809.933561 SAB-klassifikation: DoefItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction. Kafka’s Amerika : the aesthetics and politics of incompletion -- Unstable categories : naturalist and modernist performance style -- Performative absence and mechanical reproduction -- Theatre, cinema and the universal language of gesture -- 1. James Joyce. ‘our sad want of signs’ : imperceptible gestures in Ibsen and Joyce -- Paralysis and spectatorship: Henry James, Eleanora Duse, Yeats and Dubliners -- Slips of the hand in Exiles -- ‘In the beginning was the gest’ : ‘Circe’, early cinema and the ‘Art of gestures’ -- 2. Wyndham Lewis. The clown and the über-marionette in Enemy of the stars -- The childermass : Lewis vs Chaplin in the afterlife -- The politics of gesture: the bailiff, Hitler and the Society of the spectacle -- 3. The Transition to Sound. Nabokov, Lewis and Garbo -- Late modernism and the resistance to sound -- 4. Samuel Beckett. Hand-writing in Nacht und Träume -- The politics of depersonalisation in Catastrophe.