| Abstrakt: |
This contribution analyses the role of body language, laughter and blush, in Gottfried Keller's novella cycle. The interpretation highlights the employment and subversion of the usual understanding of body language as natural, involuntarily produced and therefore a reliable sign of inherent characteristics of the person, namely gender. The male protagonist fails to find the ideal congruity between appearance and essence for which he is looking, but - or better therefore - achieves mutual acknowledgement and understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
