Modernism's Mythic Pose - Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

Zusatztext Clearly written and carefully researched! this study systematically analyzes the semiotics of gesture. Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Carrie J. Preston has been an Assistant Professor of Womens Studies and English at Boston University. Klappentext Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism! a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances! particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance! film! and poetics. Its central figure! the mythic pose! expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity. Zusammenfassung Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics.

Summary

Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Preston, Carrie J. Preston
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.09.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780199766260
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976626-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies