Choreography of Modernism in France - La Danseuse 1830-1930

Informationen zum Autor Julie Townsend Klappentext Whether in the pages of a trashy novel! under the glow of gaslights! in a dance hall! or on the walls of art galleries! the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess. Zusammenfassung This study considers the figure of the female dancer in French literary, visual, and performing art from 1830 to 1930. It explores how manifestations of the la danseuse shape notions of Modernism and asks why dance occupies a privileged position in a variety of Modernist media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarmé and Valéry 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loïe Fuller 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer! Spectator! Narrator Coda

Product details

• Authors: Julie Townsend, Townsend Julie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2009
• EAN: 9781906540258
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-25-8
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, French, France, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000