Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination

Salome’s Dance after 1890

AvMegan Girdwood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance

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This book 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.Loïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic fin-de-siècle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474481625
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize 2022

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Megan Girdwood is Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, 1870-1945 at Durham University. She has published work in journals including Modernist Cultures, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Irish Studies Review, and The Cambridge Quarterly. Her monograph, Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination, is shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize 2022.

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This insightful study places Salomé at the centre of modernist considerations of dance. Exploring a diverse array of contexts beginning with the fin de siècle, Girdwood captures the way in which the veiled figure of Salomé has engendered multiple meanings through representations of the moving body in twentieth-century writing.

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List of Illustrations Abbreviations AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Unlocatable Bodies: Modernist Veiled Dancers from Loïe Fuller to Maud Allan2. ‘That Invisible Dance’: Symbolism, Salomé and Oscar Wilde’s Choreographic Aesthetics3. ‘Harmonies of Light’: Ciné-Dances and Women’s Silent Film4. ‘Herodias’ Daughters Have Returned Again’: W. B. Yeats and the Ideal Body5. Epilogue: ‘Danced through its Seven Phases’: Samuel Beckett and the Late Modernist SalomeBibliographyIndex

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