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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 200 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511483240
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 48
Content:
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 Chrétien 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 to change than words, many of the behaviours recorded in these texts, such as pointing and amorous gazing, are familiar in themselves; yet many prove easy to misread, either because they are no longer common, like bowing, or because their use has changed, like winking
Content:
Introduction -- Gestures -- Looks -- Two Middle English narratives -- Dante's Commedia -- Afterword
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521815642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521050661
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521815642
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Mittelenglisch
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Literatur
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Gestik
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Gebärdensprache
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Blick
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Altfranzösisch
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Altitalienisch
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Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400 Troilus and Criseyde
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Sir Gawain and the green knight
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Malory, Thomas 1410-1471 Le morte Darthur
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Chrétien de Troyes 1150-1190
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Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Il Filostrato
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Divina commedia
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511483240
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