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] ©2021 |
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