Megan Girdwood

Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Salome's Dance after 1890

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.Loie Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic fin-de-siecle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474481656
• Artikelnr.: 72413786

Autorenporträt

Megan Girdwood is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in English at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Irish Studies Review and The Cambridge Quarterly, and won the British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2020 for an article on Mina Loy and Carl Van Vechten, forthcoming in Modernist Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
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
5. Epilogue: 'Danced through its Seven Phases': Samuel Beckett and the Late
Modernist Salome
Bibliography
Index