Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / Megan Girdwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Girdwood, Megan, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salome (Biblical figure).

Modernism (Literature).

Dance in literature.

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.

Christian art and symbolism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

9781474481656

1474481655

9781399501958

139950195X

9781474481649

1474481647

OCLC:

1306538702