Strange Footing : Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages / Seeta Chaganti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaganti, Seeta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.

Poetry, Medieval.

Literature and dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body's regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part One

1. "Vanysshed Was This Daunce": Reenactment, Experience, Virtuality

2. Bonaventure and a Strumpet: A Theory of Medieval Poetic Form

Part Two

3. "A Certain Slant of Light": Reenacting Danse macabre as Dance

4. "Dredful Fotyng": Reenacting Danse macabre's Poetic Form

Part Three

5. The Carole's Virtual Circles

6. Dance on the Surface, Dance in the Depths: Reenacting Form in the Middle English Carol

Conclusion: Dance in the Margins, Dance in the Center

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226548180

022654818X

OCLC:

1038716688