Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890

Modernism and the choreographic imagination Salome's dance after 1890

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Girdwood, Megan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2021.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Edinburgh scholarship online.
Materias:
Salome > (Biblical figure)
Modernism (Literature)
Dance in literature.
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
Christian art and symbolism in literature.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009761839806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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