02977nam 2200613 450 99655235270331620220424173950.01-4744-8165-51-3995-0195-X1-4744-8164-710.1515/9781474481649(CKB)4100000011996310(MiAaPQ)EBC6696349(Au-PeEL)EBL6696349(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656618(DE-B1597)619429(DE-B1597)9781474481649(OCoLC)1306538702(ScCtBLL)4c874c7f-e442-45e5-8bc5-273fba459ce6(EXLCZ)99410000001199631020210305d2021 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernism and the choreographic imagination Salome's dance after 1890 /Megan Girdwood[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2021.1 online resource (251 pages)Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performanceEdinburgh scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.1-4744-8162-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- INDEXThis 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.Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.Edinburgh scholarship online.Modernism (Literature)Dance in literatureDance in motion pictures, television, etcChristian art and symbolism in literatureModernism (Literature)Dance in literature.Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.Christian art and symbolism in literature.809.933579Girdwood Megan1362454StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK996552352703316Modernism and the choreographic imagination3381595UNISA