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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Corby : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Literature and dance. Modernism (Literature) Littérature et danse. Modernisme (Littérature) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Literature and dance Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
A poetics of potentiality: Mallarmé, Fuller, Yeats, and Graham
Nietzsche, modernism, and dance: Dionysian or Apollonian?
From dance to movement: Eurhythmics, expressionism, and literature
Diaghilev and British writing
Two modern classics: The Rite of Spring and Les Noces
The 'unheard rhythms' of Virginia Woolf
'Savage and superb': primitivism in text and dance
Massine, modernisms, and the integrated arts
Ezra Pound on kinaesthetics, the Russian Ballet, and machines
'At the still point': T.S. Eliot, dance and a transatlantic poetics
Ballet Rambert and dramatic dance
Samuel Beckett and choreography.