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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. The book traces the origins of this relationship to the philosophical antecedents of modernism in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms. The book investigates dance's impact on the modernists' critique of language and shows the importance to writers of choreographic innovations by dancers of the fin de siècle, of the Ballets Russes, and of European and American experimentalists in non-balletic forms of modern dance. A reciprocal relationship occurs with choreographic use of literary text. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A poetics of potentiality: Mallarmé, Fuller, Yeats, and Graham -- Nietzsche, modernism, and dance: Dionysian or Apollonian? -- From dance to movement: Eurhythmics, expressionism, and literature -- Diaghilev and British writing -- Two modern classics: The Rite of Spring and Les Noces -- The 'unheard rhythms' of Virginia Woolf -- 'Savage and superb': primitivism in text and dance -- Massine, modernisms, and the integrated arts -- Ezra Pound on kinaesthetics, the Russian Ballet, and machines -- 'At the still point': T.S. Eliot, dance and a transatlantic poetics -- Ballet Rambert and dramatic dance -- Samuel Beckett and choreography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and dance.
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Literature and dance. |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones. Literature, modernism, and dance. Corby : Oxford University Press 2013 9780199565320 (OCoLC)844730171 |
| ISBN |
9780191009433 (electronic book) |
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0191009431 (electronic book) |
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9780191765995 |
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0191765996 |
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9780199565320 |
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0199565325 |
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