Kinesic HumorPub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190930066.003.0008
G. Bolens
{"title":"Cervantes","authors":"G. Bolens","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190930066.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190930066.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic shifts in tonicity and tempo are numerous in Don Quixote. This chapter focuses, however, on a single action: Montesinos explains how he cleaned blood from Durandarte’s heart with a handkerchief. This narrated movement requires an analysis that takes into account the historical context in which Cervantes was writing, and the threat of censorship in early modern Spain. The text conveys a type of humor that overflows readers’ reception with sensorimotor over-specifications, thereby triggering perceptual simulations that implicitly debunk the validity of key social metaphors. Two such metaphors call for attention. The first is la limpieza de sangre, the name of an ideology relative to blood purity; the second is the metaphor of the stain, la mancha, prominent in the same ideology. A close analysis of reiterated lexical choices suggests that Cervantes was reclaiming in his work the pluricultural reality of the Spain in which he was living.","PeriodicalId":374363,"journal":{"name":"Kinesic Humor","volume":"7 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117320258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinesic HumorPub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv6zddb3.10
G. Bolens
{"title":"Saint-Simon","authors":"G. Bolens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv6zddb3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6zddb3.10","url":null,"abstract":"Admired by Stendhal and Marcel Proust, Saint-Simon wrote about his life in Versailles under Louis XIV. His purpose was that of a historian. Yet his style is so striking that it inspired major literary artists. Kinesic intelligence was a vital skill in Versailles, and Saint-Simon was acutely aware of all forms of nonverbal communication. He was also capable of communicating about kinesic interactions—with a sharp sense of humor. This chapter focuses on Saint-Simon’s portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Orléans, and his own intervention in the so-called Intrigue for the marriage of the Duke of Berry. In this episode, dynamic shifts, speed, and haptics (sensations interconnecting touch and kinesthesia) are a focus of attention, as they played a surprising role in Saint-Simon’s vivid experience of this historical moment.","PeriodicalId":374363,"journal":{"name":"Kinesic Humor","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122954643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinesic HumorPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv3hh4k5.15
G. Bolens
{"title":"Stendhal","authors":"G. Bolens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv3hh4k5.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3hh4k5.15","url":null,"abstract":"Stendhal was deeply interested in comedy. Even in such a tragic novel as Le Rouge et le Noir, powerful emotions are interwoven with humorous effects. A remarkable passage of Le Rouge et le Noir stages Julien Sorel interacting with Amanda Binet, a barmaid, and one of her lovers. Kinesic humor is central to this scene in which the complexity of kinesic communication is thematized through Julien’s failure to emulate the swaggering gait, dynamic facial gestures, and kinesic know-how of Amanda’s lover. Stendhal’s style is carefully considered in this chapter in relation to the challenge it represents for translators.","PeriodicalId":374363,"journal":{"name":"Kinesic Humor","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124341696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}