This book places the performative gesture at the centre of debate
between literature, theatre and cinema. This 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. It provides new close readings of
major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, Henry James, Wyndham
Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with
both theatre and cinema. It 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. It analyses central and neglected
modernist texts alongside stage productions, styles of acting, film
history and performance theory.
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