Literature, modernism, and dance [electronic resource] / Susan Jones.

This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Susan, 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Literature and dance.
Modernism (Literature)
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Literature, modernism & dance [Spine title]
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A poetics of potentiality: Mallarmé, Fuller, Yeats, and Graham
  • Nietzsche, modernism, and dance: Dionysian or Apollonian?
  • From dance to movement: Eurhythmics, expressionism, and literature
  • Diaghilev and British writing
  • Two modern classics: The Rite of Spring and Les Noces
  • The 'unheard rhythms' of Virginia Woolf
  • 'Savage and superb': primitivism in text and dance
  • Massine, modernisms, and the integrated arts
  • Ezra Pound on kinaesthetics, the Russian Ballet, and machines
  • 'At the still point': T.S. Eliot, dance and a transatlantic poetics
  • Ballet Rambert and dramatic dance
  • Samuel Beckett and choreography.