The style of gestures : embodiment and cognition in literary narrative / Guillemette Bolens ; foreword by Alain Berthoz.

  • Bolens, Guillemette.
Date:
2012
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About this work

Also known as

Style des gestes. English

Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Physical description

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-227) and index.

Contents

The body in literature -- Kinesic tropes and action verbs -- Verecundia and social wounding in the legend of Lucrece -- Face-work and ambiguous feats in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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ISBN

  • 9781421405186
  • 1421405180