Anthony Paraskeva

Speech-Gesture Complex (eBook, PDF)

Modernism, Theatre, Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaThis new 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748684908
• Artikelnr.: 43668196

Autorenporträt

Anthony Paraskeva is Senior Lecturer in English at Roehampton University. He is currently completing his second monograph, Samuel Beckett and Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography.