Strange footing : poetic form and dance in the late Middle Ages /
For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and med...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body's regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226547992 022654799X 9780226548043 022654804X |