Modernism's Mythic Pose

Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

AvCarrie J. Preston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Del i serien Modernist Literature and Culture

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Beskrivning

Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-15
Mått:241 x 170 x 35 mm
Vikt:672 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modernist Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199766260
Utmärkelser:Winner of Society of Dance History de la Torre Bueno Prize

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Carrie J. Preston has been an Assistant Professor of Womens Studies and English at Boston University.

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Clearly written and carefully researched, this study systematically analyzes the semiotics of gesture. Recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editors' Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. ; I. Modern, Antimodern, and Mythic Posing ; II. Gendered Identity and Embodiment ; III. Biblical Typology and Classical Ritual ; IV. Solo Genres ; V. Modernist Kinaesthetics ; Chapter 1. The Solo's Origins: Monodramas, Attitudes, Dramatic Monologues ; I. Galatea's Reach: Gestures of the Monodrama ; II. Veiled Motions: Emma Lyon Hamilton's Attitude ; III. Goethe's Proserpina and Later Posers ; IV. Barrett Browning: Naming "Aeschylus" and "The Virgin Mary" ; V. Types and Housewives in Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster ; Chapter 2. Posing Modernism: Delsartism in Modern Dance and Silent Film ; I. Delsarte's Aesthetics of the Attitude ; II. Disseminating Delsarte ; III. Performing Delsartism: Genevieve Stebbins and the Early Motions of Modern Dance ; IV. Performing Delsartism (Take Two): Denishawn and Hollywood ; V. The Russian Delsarte: Kuleshov and Film Montage ; Chapter 3. Positioning Genre: The Dramatic Monologue in Cultures of Recitation ; I.