Modernism as Gesture: The Experience of Music, Samuel Beckett, and Performed Bewilderment.

This paper examines gesture in music and literature—it presents a "theory of gesture"—culminating in a close analysis of Samuel Beckett's Not I in the contexts of psychology and neurology. It examines gesture in relation to music, free indirect discourse in literary texts (with Joyce as example), sp...

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Published in:	Criticism Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 73 - 97
Main Author:	Schleifer, Ronald
Format:	Article
Published:	Wayne State University Press Winter2019
Subjects:	Gesture in music Gesture in literature Speech act theory (Communication) Neurobiology Modernism (Literature)
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