Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter

Maria Marcsek-Fuchs is a lecturer of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She studied English and German Studies at the University of Regensburg and completed her Doctorate (PhD) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She also holds a Degree (Diploma) in Choreography from the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden and completed her Dance Studies at the Joffrey Ballet School and the School of American Ballet, New York. Her research interests include Intermediality and Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Popular and Participatory Culture as well as 19th Century Drama. She founded the Tanz-Sport-Theater at the Universität Regensburg and is currently director of the TUBS-Players at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

• ContentsAcknowledgements 1.Introduction 2.THEORY: Mediality and Literalised Dance 2.1.Definition of Medium 2.2.Literature as Medium 2.2.1.A Semiotic Perspective on Literature 2.2.2.From a Semiotic to a Cultural Perspective on Literature2.3.Dance as Medium .2.3.1.General Statements 2.3.2.A Semiotic Perspective on Dance 2.3.2.1.Movement 2.3.2.2.Time 2.3.2.3.Space 2.3.3.From a Semiotic through a Culturalto an Intermedial Perspective on Dance2.3.3.1.Dance Genres as Markers ofClass, National Identity, and Gender 2.3.3.2.The Body and Signification .3.TYPOLOGY: Literalised Dance as Intermedial Encounter 3.1.Intermediality as a Concept 3.2.Toward a Typology of Literalised Dance 3.2.1.A Semiotic Approach 3.2.1.1.Extra-compositional Intermediality3.2.1.2.Intra-compositional Intermediality 3.2.2.A Cultural Approach 3.2.2.1.Literalised Dance as aPlatform for Cultural Discourse .3.2.2.2.Representations of Dance Culturein Poetry and Caricature 4.CASE STUDIES: Literalised Dance in British Drama 4.1.Dance in British Dramafrom the Renaissance to the 18th Century 4.1.1.Plurimediality in Renaissance Masques—Dance as Allegory of Order: Jonson’s Hymenaei andShakespeare’s The Tempest, Jonson’s PleasureReconciled to Virtue, Milton’s Comus 4.1.2.Intermedial Reference and Cultural Ridiculein Restoration and 18th Century Comedy:Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing Master,Sheridan’s The Rivals 4.2.Dance in British Drama of the 19th Century 4.2.1.Popular Literature and the Waltz 4.2.1.1.The Waltz: A Public Scandal andits Poetic Representations 4.2.1.2.The Waltz in 19th Century‘Illegitimate’ Drama 4.2.2.Elitist Drama and Modern Dance 4.2.2.1.Presence through Absence:Oscar Wilde’s Salome 4.2.2.2.The Revolution of Modernism:Yeats and Modern Dance 5.Conclusion Works Cited List of Illustrations Index