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Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative( )
Author: Burrow, J. A.
ISBN:978-1-280-15970-1
Publication Date:Jan 2002
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $150.00
Book Description:

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...
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Pages:216



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