Gesture as Language
David Trotter, 30 January 1992
A Cultural History of Gestures: From Antiquity to the Present
edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
Polity, 220 pp., £35, December 1991,0 7456 0786 1 Show More
edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
Polity, 220 pp., £35, December 1991,
The New Oxford Book of 17th-Century Verse
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 830 pp., £25, November 1991,0 19 214164 3 Show More
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 830 pp., £25, November 1991,
“... likely to be classified as a passive homosexual. Fritz Graf finds Quintilian in Rumpole of the Bailey mood, denouncing orators who gesticulate so wildly that it is scarcely safe to stand behind them. Robert Muchembled discovers almost the same degree of formality among Breton peasants as Maria Bogucka does among Polish courtiers and diplomats. I liked her ... ”