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Gestures and looks in medieval narrative /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gestures and looks in medieval narrative // J.A. Burrow.
remainder title:	Gestures & Looks in Medieval Narrative
Author:	Burrow, J. A.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483240
ISBN:	9780511483240 (ebook)

Gestures and looks in medieval narrative /
Burrow, J. A.

Gestures and looks in medieval narrative /Gestures & Looks in Medieval NarrativeJ.A. Burrow. - 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;48. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- Gestures -- Looks -- Two Middle English narratives -- Dante's Commedia -- Afterword.

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.

ISBN: 9780511483240 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

573815
Literature, Medieval
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN682.N65 / B87 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93355

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