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The Speech-Gesture Complex : Modernism, Theatre, Cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDPPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748684908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.933561 23
LOC classification:
  • PN682.G48 P37 2013
  • PN682.G48 P37 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 JAMES JOYCE -- 2 WYNDHAM LEWIS -- 3 THE TRANSITION TO SOUND -- 4 SAMUEL BECKETT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index
Summary: Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaProvides new close readings of major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, James, Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with both theatre and cinemaEstablishes a new critical-theoretical category, and highlights an unexplored dialogue between Ibsen, Benjamin, Adorno, Griffith, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Brecht, Artaud, Lang, Meyerhold, Duse and GarboAnalyses central and neglected modernist texts alongside stage productions, styles of acting, film history and performance theoryThis 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 JAMES JOYCE -- 2 WYNDHAM LEWIS -- 3 THE TRANSITION TO SOUND -- 4 SAMUEL BECKETT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index

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Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaProvides new close readings of major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, James, Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with both theatre and cinemaEstablishes a new critical-theoretical category, and highlights an unexplored dialogue between Ibsen, Benjamin, Adorno, Griffith, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Brecht, Artaud, Lang, Meyerhold, Duse and GarboAnalyses central and neglected modernist texts alongside stage productions, styles of acting, film history and performance theoryThis 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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