J. A. Burrow

Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

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In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this, the first study of its kind in English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a wide range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Prose Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia. Burrow argues that since non-verbal signs are in general less subject t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: J. a., Burrow / Minnis, Alastair (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-81564-2
EAN: 9780521815642
Produktnummer: 1906246
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 491 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 491

Über den Autor

John Burrow is Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of English at Bristol University. He has published widely on middle English literature. His books include Medieval Writers and Their Work (1982).