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Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance
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Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance / Carrie J. Preston.
ISBN
9780199766260 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199766266 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2012
Series
Modernist literature & culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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