Modernism's Mythic Pose

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-976626-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preston

Preston, Carrie J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

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Über Autor(innen)

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