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Literature, modernism, and dance /

This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimenta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A poetics of potentiality: Mallarmé, Fuller, Yeats, and Graham
  • Nietzsche, modernism, and dance: Dionysian or Apollonian?
  • From dance to movement: Eurhythmics, expressionism, and literature
  • Diaghilev and British writing
  • Two modern classics: The Rite of Spring and Les Noces
  • The 'unheard rhythms' of Virginia Woolf
  • 'Savage and superb': primitivism in text and dance
  • Massine, modernisms, and the integrated arts
  • Ezra Pound on kinaesthetics, the Russian Ballet, and machines
  • 'At the still point': T.S. Eliot, dance and a transatlantic poetics
  • Ballet Rambert and dramatic dance
  • Samuel Beckett and choreography.