Modernism's mythic pose

Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID23504849
AuthorsCarrie J Preston (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages357
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueModernism's mythic pose (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199766260.001.0001
OpenAlexW4205115509
ISBN9780199766260
Open LibraryOL24839684M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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.

ancient sources · Art · Art history · Charlotte Mew · Classicism · Comics · Dance · dramatic monologue · Ezra Pound · François Delsarte · Gender · H.D. · hybrid performance · Isadora Duncan · Lev Kuleshov · Literature · Modernism · Modernism (music) · Poetry · Pound (networking) · public recitation · Statue · T. S. Eliot · Technology · women performers · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies · 19th century · 20th century · American literature · American poetry · American poetry, history and criticism · Art, modern · Classical influences · History · History and criticism · Modern Art · Modernism (art) · Modernism (Literature) · united states · Women in the performing arts