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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 Experimentation, Primitivism, Anthropology, And Modern Technologies Such As Photography, Film, And Mechanisation. The Book Traces The Origins Of This Relationship To The Philosophical Antecedents Of Modernism In The Nineteenth Century And Examines Experimentation In Both Art Forms. The Book Investigates Dance's Impact On The Modernists' Critique Of Language And Shows The Importance To Writers Of Choreographic Innovations By Dancers Of The Fin De Siecle, Of The Ballets Russes, And Of European And American Experimentalists In Non-balletic Forms Of Modern Dance. A Reciprocal Relationship Occurs With Choreographic Use Of Literary Text. Dance And Literature Meet At This Time At The Site Of Formal Experiments In Narrative, Drama, And Poetics, And Their Relationship Contributes To Common Aesthetic Modes Such As Symbolism, Primitivism, Expressionism, And Constructivism. Focussing On The First Half Of The T

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Author

Susan Jones

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191009433

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Anthropology