Body language in literature
By: Barbara Korte.
Series: Theory/culture; Theory/culture series
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; Nonverbal communication in literature; Body language in literature; Body, Human, in literature
Description: In Body Language in Literature, Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language. By focusing on major works of literature, including stories by D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Atwood, and J. D. Salinger, Korte shows body language to be a vital yet unexplored method of communication in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-323) and index.
A revision of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität zu Köln, 1991.