Literature, modernism, and dance /
This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimenta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Corby :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. The book traces the origins of this relationship to the philosophical antecedents of modernism in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms. The book investigates dance's impact on the modernists' critique of language and shows the importance to writers of choreographic innovations by dancers of the fin de siècle, of the Ballets Russes, and of European and American experimentalists in non-balletic forms of modern dance. A reciprocal relationship occurs with choreographic use of literary text. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191009433 0191009431 9780191765995 0191765996 |