Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A. .
Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xii, 200 pp.
- Description
- Explores the functions and significances of "non-verbal signs" (glancing, pointing, winking, hand-clasping, kissing, bowing, etc.) in medieval literature, concentrating on Dante's Commedia, the romances of Chrtien de Troyes, Froissart's Chronicles, the Prose Lancelot, Langland's Piers Plowman, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte Darthur, and Chaucer's TC. Chaucer increases the amount of "gestural behaviour" that he found in his source, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, producing "one of the richest" of all medieval narratives for understanding the "part played by non-verbal communication in familiar private exchanges."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.