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Author Fleischer, Mary.

Title Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 346 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 113
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 113. 0929-6999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index.
Contents 1. Theatre and Dance -- A Symbolist Dialogue -- 2. Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ida Rubinstein -- 3. Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Grete Wiesenthal -- 4. W.B. Yeats and Michio Ito -- 5. W.B. Yeats and Ninette de Valois -- 6. Paul Claudel, Jean Bö̈rlin and the Ballets Suédois -- 7. Dance-Theatre as a Collaborative Genre.
Summary "Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations explores the relationship between Symbolist theatre and early modern dance across Europe from the 1890s through the 1930s. Gabriele D'Annunzio's projects with Ida Rubinstein; Hugo von Hofmannsthal's pantomimes for Grete Wiesenthal; W.B. Yeats's work with Michio Ito and Ninette de Valois; and Paul Claudel's collaborations with Jean Borlin and the Ballets Suedois are studied in depth to shed new light on an evolving dance-theatre form within Symbolist culture. Buoyed by the era's heightened interest in the expressive qualities of the body, these playwrights were highly invested in the authority of language, yet were drawn to the capacity of dance to evoke spiritual or psychological states which words could not completely capture. In its belief of fundamental correspondences among the arts, Symbolism encouraged experimentation across disciplines, and this study traces interconnections among many of its significant figures including Max Reinhardt, Claude Debussy, Gertrud Eysoldt, Edward Gordon Craig, Bronislava Nijinksa, Isadora Duncan, Jaques Dalcroze, Darius Milhaud, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mariano Fortuny, Terence Gray, George Antheil, Eleonora Duse, and Michel Fokine."--Jacket.
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Subject Symbolism (Literary movement)
Symbolism (Literary movement)
Symbolism (Art movement) -- Influence.
Symbolism (Art movement) -- Influence.
Symbolism (Art movement)
Modern dance -- History.
Modern dance.
History.
Symbolism in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fleischer, Mary. Embodied texts. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007 9789042022850 (OCoLC)173252146
ISBN 9781435604940 (electronic book)
1435604946 (electronic book)
904202285X
9789042022850
904202285X (paperback)
9789042022850 (paperback)