Research Catalog

Title

Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance / Carrie J. Preston.

Author

Preston, Carrie J.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

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Description

xiv, 357 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, this book argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology. The touchstone of this study is Delsartism - the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue-posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender.

Series Statement

Modernist literature & culture

Uniform Title

• Modernist literature & culture.
• University press scholarship online.

Subject

• American literature > Classical influences
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Art, Modern > Classical influences
• Dance > United States > History > 19th century
• Modernism (Art) > United States
• Modernism (Literature) > United States
• Women in the performing arts

Note

• Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-341) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The solo's origins : monodramas, attitudes, dramatic monologues -- Posing modernism : Delsartism in modern dance and silent film -- Positioning genre : the dramatic monologue in cultures of recitation -- The motor in the soul : Isadora Duncan's solo dance -- Ritualized reception : H.D.'s antimodernist poetics and cinematics.

ISBN

• 9780199766260 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0199766266 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011014568

OCLC

709682870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library