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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