Modernism's Mythic Pose

Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

Carrie J. Preston (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-976626-0 (ISBN)

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Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

Carrie J. Preston has been an Assistant Professor of Womens Studies and English at Boston University.

Series Editors' Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. ; I. Modern, Antimodern, and Mythic Posing ; II. Gendered Identity and Embodiment ; III. Biblical Typology and Classical Ritual ; IV. Solo Genres ; V. Modernist Kinaesthetics ; Chapter 1. The Solo's Origins: Monodramas, Attitudes, Dramatic Monologues ; I. Galatea's Reach: Gestures of the Monodrama ; II. Veiled Motions: Emma Lyon Hamilton's Attitude ; III. Goethe's Proserpina and Later Posers ; IV. Barrett Browning: Naming "Aeschylus" and "The Virgin Mary" ; V. Types and Housewives in Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster ; Chapter 2. Posing Modernism: Delsartism in Modern Dance and Silent Film ; I. Delsarte's Aesthetics of the Attitude ; II. Disseminating Delsarte ; III. Performing Delsartism: Genevieve Stebbins and the Early Motions of Modern Dance ; IV. Performing Delsartism (Take Two): Denishawn and Hollywood ; V. The Russian Delsarte: Kuleshov and Film Montage ; Chapter 3. Positioning Genre: The Dramatic Monologue in Cultures of Recitation ; I.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.10.2011
Reihe/Serie	Modernist Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	28 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 170 mm
Gewicht	672 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-976626-6 / 0199766266
ISBN-13	978-0-19-976626-0 / 9780199766260
Zustand	Neuware