Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Girdwood Megan
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| Titolo: |
Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.933579 |
| Soggetto topico: | Modernism (Literature) |
| Dance in literature | |
| Dance in motion pictures, television, etc | |
| Christian art and symbolism in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modernism and the choreographic imagination |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-8165-5 |
| 1-3995-0195-X | |
| 1-4744-8164-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910727247703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Edinburgh scholarship online.