Name: Modernism's Mythic Pose By Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)
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Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance by Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

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Clearly written and carefully researched, this study systematically analyzes the semiotics of gesture. Recommended. * CHOICE *

About Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

Carrie J. Preston has been an Assistant Professor of Womens Studies and English at Boston University.

Series Editors' Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. ; I. Modern, Antimodern, and Mythic Posing ; II. Gendered Identity and Embodiment ; III. Biblical Typology and Classical Ritual ; IV. Solo Genres ; V. Modernist Kinaesthetics ; Chapter 1. The Solo's Origins: Monodramas, Attitudes, Dramatic Monologues ; I. Galatea's Reach: Gestures of the Monodrama ; II. Veiled Motions: Emma Lyon Hamilton's Attitude ; III. Goethe's Proserpina and Later Posers ; IV. Barrett Browning: Naming "Aeschylus" and "The Virgin Mary" ; V. Types and Housewives in Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster ; Chapter 2. Posing Modernism: Delsartism in Modern Dance and Silent Film ; I. Delsarte's Aesthetics of the Attitude ; II. Disseminating Delsarte ; III. Performing Delsartism: Genevieve Stebbins and the Early Motions of Modern Dance ; IV. Performing Delsartism (Take Two): Denishawn and Hollywood ; V. The Russian Delsarte: Kuleshov and Film Montage ; Chapter 3. Positioning Genre: The Dramatic Monologue in Cultures of Recitation ; I.

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Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance by Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

Author

Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

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Modernist Literature and Culture

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Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

2011-09-15

Number of pages

384

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Winner of Winner of Society of Dance History de la Torre Bueno Prize.

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Modernism's Mythic Pose Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

Modernism's Mythic Pose by Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

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Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance by Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

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About Carrie J. Preston (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

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