Modernism's mythic pose

Modernism's mythic pose: gender, genre, solo performance

by Preston, Carrie J.

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The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates moderni.

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

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, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates moderni.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199877447, 0199877440, 0199766266, 9780199766260
  • oclc:ocn889236007
  • LC Classification:PS310.M57
  • Dewey Decimal:700.4112

Table of 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.

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Subjects

American literature -- Classical influe… American poetry American poetry -- History and criticis… Art, Modern -- Classical influences Criticism, interpretation, etc Dance Dance -- History -- 19th century. -- Un… Danse -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. -- Éta… History Littérature américaine -- Influence anc… Modernism (Art) Modernism (Art) -- United States Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Literature) -- United States Modernisme (Art) -- États-Unis Modernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… United States

Writers

Preston, Carrie J.

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