Modernism and the choreographic imagination : : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood.

• Superior document: Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
• VerfasserIn: Girdwood, Megan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.; Edinburgh scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Other title: 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
• Audience: Specialized.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1474481655; 139950195X; 1474481647
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Megan Girdwood.

This volume explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism.