Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination : : Salome’s Dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood.

An account of Salome’s dance and its centrality within modernist performanceOffers a new account of the Salome myth that underlines its centrality to modernist performance across different genres and forms, including drama, dance, and silent filmDraws on interdisciplinary methodologies from literary...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1 ‘UNLOCATABLE BODIES’: MODERNIST VEILED DANCERS FROM LOÏE FULLER TO MAUD ALLAN
  • 2 ‘THAT INVISIBLE DANCE’: SYMBOLISM, SALOMÉ AND OSCAR WILDE’S CHOREOGRAPHIC AESTHETICS
  • 3 ‘HARMONIES OF LIGHT’: CINÉ-DANCES AND WOMEN’S SILENT FILM
  • 4 ‘HERODIAS’ DAUGHTERS HAVE RETURNED AGAIN’: W. B. YEATS AND THE IDEAL BODY
  • EPILOGUE ‘DANCED THROUGH ITS SEVEN PHASES’: SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE LATE MODERNIST SALOME
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX