Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk : : A Rhetoric of Rhythm / / Marc Shell.

This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Starting Out: Prologue and Preamble
  • 2. Walking Voices
  • 3. Trips of the Tongue in Hamlet (1600)
  • 4. Talking Cures
  • 5. Walkie Talkies
  • 6. Marching and Heiling in The Great Dictator (1940)
  • 7. Knock-Kneed and Tongue-Tied in The King's Speech (2010)
  • 8. Sign Languages
  • 9. Postamble and Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index