Dorota Dutsch

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dorota Dutsch is involved.

Articles

Dutsch, Dorota 2007 Gestures in the manuscripts of Terence and late revivals of literary drama Gesture 7:1, pp. 39–71 | Article

Several manuscripts of Terence feature a cycle of miniatures depicting masked actors. The miniatures mark scene-headings and on this account have often been dismissed as merely decorative and irrelevant to the history of ancient theater. Nevertheless, the pictures project an illusion of… read more

Dutsch, Dorota 2002 Towards a grammar of gesture: A comparison between the types of hand movements of the orator and the actor in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 11.3.85–184 Gesture 2:2, pp. 259–281 | Article

In his Institutio (11.3.85–88), Quintilian divides all human gestures into “imitative” and “natural,” with natural gestures forming a symbolic code comparable to spoken language. This language of gesture would have included hand movements equivalent to adverbs, pronouns, nouns, and verbs. Such… read more