{"product_id":"modernism-and-the-choreographic-imagination-salomes-dance-after-1890-paperback","title":"Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome's Dance After 1890 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Girdwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance This book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism. Loïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic fin-de-siècle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period. Megan Girdwood is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Girdwood is Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, 1870-1945 at Durham University. She has published work in journals including \u003ci\u003eModernist Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. Her monograph, \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Choreographic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, is shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718366367807,"sku":"9781474481632","price":75.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/837aefe44390c20ac8cd58c4c9c24696.webp?v=1765081665","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/modernism-and-the-choreographic-imagination-salomes-dance-after-1890-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}