Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
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- ISBN 9781474481632
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance
Offers a new account of the Salome myth that underlines its centrality to modernist performance across different genres and forms, including drama, dance, and silent film
Draws on interdisciplinary methodologies from literary and performance studies to illustrate the importance of dance to modernist writing about Salome, providing a set of both conceptual and historical co-ordinates within modernism more broadly
Builds a conceptual framework drawing on the writings of Aby Warburg, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jacques Ranci re in order to analyse key 'scenes' and sites of performance in the genealogy of this particular choreographic theme
Engages in fresh readings of plays by canonical playwrights Wilde, Yeats, Beckett alongside the work of lesser-known performers and filmmakers in order to destabilise the gendered and aesthetic hierarchies often germane to literary histories of the period
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.
Lo e 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-si cle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period.
Megan Girdwood is Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, 1870-1945 at Durham University. She has published work in journals including Modernist Cultures, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Irish Studies Review, and The Cambridge Quarterly. Her monograph, Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination, is shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize 2022.
