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Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance /

The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates moderni.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Preston, Carrie J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Modernist literature & culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The solo's origins: monodramas, attitudes, dramatic monologues
  • Posing modernism: Delsartism in modern dance and silent film
  • Positioning genre: the dramatic monologue in cultures of recitation
  • The motor in the soul: Isadora Duncan's solo dance
  • Ritualized reception: H.D.'s antimodernist poetics and cinematics.