Description: "This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk"--
Brief description:
Marc Shell, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, is Irving Babbitt
Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English and American
Literature and Language at Harvard University. The most recent of his many books are Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture and Stutter.
Review Quotes:
"A few paragraphs of Marc Shell, dip in where you will, and you know you're in
the presence of one of the profession's small handful of eccentric polymaths and
geniuses."