Dance pathologies : performance, poetics, medicine / Felicia McCarren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarren, Felicia M.

Series:

Writing science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Psychological aspects--History--19th century.

Dance.

Mental illness--History--19th century.

Mental illness.

Pathology--History--19th century.

Pathology.

Women dancers--History--19th century.

Women dancers.

Poetics.

Giselle (Choreographic work).

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961. Bagatelles pour un massacre.

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand.

History.

Dance--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

" This book harvests the fruits of a decade of critical rethinking about Freud and Lacan and historical research into the history of medicine to rewrite the history of dance in literature, as literature, and against literature. In that way it is without rivals." - Joseph Roach, Yale University

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-272) and index.

ISBN:

0804729891

OCLC:

38356030