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Body Language in Literature /

In Body Language in Literature, Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language. By focusing on m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Korte, Barbara, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction. 1. Rationale and purpose
  • 2. Body language in literature and the arts : past and present research
  • Part II. A critical framework for the analysis of body language in (narrative) literature. 3. Categories of body language
  • 4. Body language in the narrative text : a literary-critical perspective
  • Part III. Body language in the English novel : trends in historical development. 5. Body language and the aesthetic of the novel
  • 6. Literary body language in context.