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This book suggests that an understanding of nonverbal communication can be applied to our reading of literature, thus enriching our comprehension of characters, style, and meaning - particularly in the short story.
Its theoretical framework is established by drawing from the diverse research in nonverbal communication in psychology, physi- ology, anthropology, and sociology. A combination of these approaches gives the nine categories applied to the reading of the short stories in this study: regulators, body clues, adaptors, physical appearance, vocal tones, touch, space, time, and artifacts.
This interdisciplinary approach leads to close readings from a fresh perspective on the following familiar stories from different eras: Nathaniel Hawthorne's -My Kinsman, Major Molineux- and -Young Goodman Brown, - Ernest Hemingway's -The Killers- and -Hills Like White Elephants, - and Flannery O'Connor's -Good Country People- and -The Life You Save May Be Your Own.-"

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• Acknowledgments(p. vi)
• Chapter 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Notes(p. 25)
• Chapter 2 The Short-Changed Short Story(p. 29)
• Notes(p. 43)
• Chapter 3 Noisy Nathaniel(p. 47)
• Notes(p. 85)
• Notes(p. 112)
• Chapter 5 Vissual Flannery(p. 117)
• Notes(p. 144)
• Chapter 6 Conclusion(p. 147)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 159)
• Index(p. 167)

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This unique book seeks to apply research on nonverbal communication from the social sciences (primarily psychology, anthropology, and sociology) to the analysis, interpretation, and criticism of literature. Portch's book begins with a fine overview of nonverbal communication research; he suggests an approach that considers nine categories of communication cues (regulators, body clues, adaptors, physical appearance, vocal tones, touch, space, time, and artifacts). The remainder of the work applies these categories to short stories by Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Flannery O'Connor. Although one might wish that a broader range of authors and works had been considered, this book is still an outstanding example of the application to literary criticism of social science perspectives on nonverbal communication. It will be used by undergraduates as well as by graduate students.-S.A. Rollman, James Madison University