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



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Autore: Girdwood Megan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 996552352703316
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Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance. Edinburgh scholarship online.