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Silent Eloquence : Lucian and Pantomime Dancing.
One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | Classical literature and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Setting the Scene; 1. Pantomime Dancing Through the Centuries; 2. Pantomime and Other Entertainments: Cross-Fertilisations and Affiliations; 3. 'Technologies' of the Body: The Pantomime's Art; 4. Pantomimes and their Body 'Politic'; 5. Pantomimes and their Body Dangerous; 6. Emancipating Pantomime: Lycinus' Speech in Lucian's On the Dance; 7. Lucian's On the Dance or The Sophist's Pantomime; 8. Pantomime, the Intellectual's Equal? The Genre Through the Eyes of the Cultural Élites.
- 9. A 'Margin of Mess': Pantomime and the Strategies of Élite Cultural Self-definition10. Dancing on the Brink: The 'Hybrid' Discourse of Pantomime Dancing; 11. Who is Afraid of Pantomime Dancers?; 12. Controlling Theatre in the Imperial East: the Sophist and the Pantomime; Epilogue; Postscript: The Afterlife of Ancient Pantomime and Lucian's On the Dance; Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; A; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; V; X; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.