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Book Review

Volume 103 • Number 4

October 2004


 


Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. By J. A. Burrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 200. $55.00.

John Burrow's book intends to reveal the significations of nonverbal communications (NVCs) in a broad range of medieval texts. The introductory chapters are divided into two large categories, "Gestures " (Chap. 2) and "Looks " (Chap. 3). These are followed by another two chapters that provide detailed analyses of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Chap. 4) and Dante's Commedia (Chap. 5).

Lawrence M. Clopper
Indiana University
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