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Record Nr.

UNISA996552352703316

Autore

Girdwood Megan

Titolo

Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4744-8165-5

1-3995-0195-X

1-4744-8164-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

809.933579

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Dance in literature

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc

Christian art and symbolism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘UNLOCATABLE BODIES’: MODERNIST VEILED DANCERS FROM LOÏE FULLER TO MAUD ALLAN -- 2 ‘THAT INVISIBLE DANCE’: SYMBOLISM, SALOMÉ AND OSCAR WILDE’S CHOREOGRAPHIC AESTHETICS -- 3 ‘HARMONIES OF LIGHT’: CINÉ-DANCES AND WOMEN’S SILENT FILM -- 4 ‘HERODIAS’ DAUGHTERS HAVE RETURNED AGAIN’: W. B. YEATS AND THE IDEAL BODY -- EPILOGUE ‘DANCED THROUGH ITS SEVEN PHASES’: SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE LATE MODERNIST SALOME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This volume 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.