Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance / Carrie J. Preston.
- Preston, Carrie J
- Date:
- [2011], ©2011
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Publication/Creation
Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Physical description
xiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
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