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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819386303321

Autore

Korte Barbara <1957->

Titolo

Body language in literature / / Barbara Korte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-282-00320-8

9786612003202

1-4426-7149-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Theory / Culture

Disciplina

823.009/353

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism

Nonverbal communication in literature

Body language in literature

Human body in literature

Critiques litteraires.

Livres numeriques.

Literary criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published as: Körpersprache in der Literatur : Theorie und Geschichte am Beispiel englischer Erzählprosa.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 major works of literature, including stories by D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Atwood, and J.D. Salinger, Korte shows body language to be a vital yet unexplored method of communication in literature.