The Choreography Of Modernism In France

Author : Julie Townsend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351194211

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The Choreography of Modernism in France by Julie Townsend Pdf

"Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, in the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels and autobiographies, thereby contributing to an ongoing cultural debate around performance, spectatorship, desire, and art. In this interdisciplinary study of la danseuse, Julie Townsend examines the rise and fall of classical ballet, the phenomenon of the music hall, and the birth of modern dance. She highlights moments of representational crisis and emergent aesthetics in her consideration of poetry, novels, painting, early film, and women's autobiography."

Author : Julie Ann Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics, French
ISBN : WISC:89080349574

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The Choreography of Modernism in France by Julie Ann Townsend Pdf

Author : Carrie J. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199384587

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Modernism's Mythic Pose by Carrie J. Preston Pdf

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.

Author : Celia Marshik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107049260

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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture by Celia Marshik Pdf

This companion provides students and scholars alike with an interdisciplinary approach to literary modernism. Through essays written on a range of cultural contexts, this collection helps readers understand the significant changes in belief systems, visual culture, and pastimes that influenced, and were influenced by, the experimental literature published around 1890-1945.

Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230234000

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The Body and the Arts by Corinne Saunders Pdf

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

Author : Sue Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350275768

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Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas Pdf

Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.

Author : Catherine Emerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351551748

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Regarding Manneken Pis by Catherine Emerson Pdf

Manneken Pis, a fountain featuring a bronze child urinating, has stood on the same Brussels street corner since at least the mid-fifteenth century. Since there is no consensus on its meaning, it has been used to express many different readings of social relations in a complex city and nation state. It has formed part of the festival culture of the city - from royal entries to gay pride - but has also been exploited in conflicts arising out of war and occupation, and the tensions inherent in modern Belgium. Drawing on archives, histories, police reports, devotional literature, ephemera and a wealth of other sources, Catherine Emerson examines how one smaller-than-lifesized water source has come to embody a certain sort of Brussels identity.

Author : Juliet Bellow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558044

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Modernism on Stage by Juliet Bellow Pdf

Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev?s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes? stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres - dance, music and painting - in a mixed-media form inspired by Richard Wagner?s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art). This interdisciplinary study combines a broad history of Diaghilev?s troupe with close readings of four ballets designed by canonical modernist artists: Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico. Experimental both in concept and form, these productions redefine our understanding of the interconnected worlds of the visual and performing arts, elite culture and mass entertainment in Paris between the two world wars. This volume traces the ways in which artists working with the Ballets Russes adapted painterly styles to the temporal, three-dimensional and corporeal medium of ballet. Analyzing interactions among sets, costumes, choreography, and musical accompaniment, the book establishes what the Ballets Russes' productions looked like and how audiences reacted to them. Juliet Bellow brings dance to bear upon modernist art history as more than a source of imagery or ornament: she spotlights a complex dialogue among art forms that did not preclude but rather enhanced artists? interrogation of the limits of medium.

Author : Mairi MaLaughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351547307

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Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French by Mairi MaLaughlin Pdf

It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an international news agency and a corpus of translated news agency dispatches. The linguistic analysis of three syntactic structures in the translations is complemented by an investigation of the effects of a range of factors including, most notably, the speed at which the translation is carried out. The analysis sheds new light on the ways in which news translation could lead to syntactic borrowing in French, and by extension, in other languages.

Author : Anna Tristram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351537858

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Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax by Anna Tristram Pdf

Collective nouns such asmajorite or foulehave long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French. Through an analysis of data from a variety of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews, gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic and external factors which affect this type of agreement are examined, shedding new light on their interaction in this context. Broader questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France, are also addressed.

Author : Stephen Forcer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351570251

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Dada as Text, Thought and Theory by Stephen Forcer Pdf

The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering English translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics - including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics - in order to get beyond Dada's typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107021891

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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt Pdf

This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.

Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819568430

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Traces of Light by Ann Cooper Albright Pdf

The first major English-language study of a legendary dancer

Author : Cecile Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351553575

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Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship by Cecile Bishop Pdf

The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cliches portraying Africans as incapable of self-government. Against the heavily-politicized responses provoked by this dilemma, Bishop argues for a form of criticism that places the complexity of the reader's or spectator's experiences at the heart of its investigations. Ranging across literature, film and political theory, this study calls for a reengagement with notions - often seen as unwelcome diversions from political questions - such as referentiality, genre and aesthetics. But rather than pit 'political' approaches against formal and aesthetic procedures, the author presents new insights into the interplay of the political and the aesthetic. Cecile Bishop is a Junior Research Fellow in French at Somerville College, Oxford.

Author : Sylvia Huot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351569200

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Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets by Sylvia Huot Pdf

The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words. An examination of the intertextual density of the Rose , with its citations and adaptations of a range of Latin authors, shows that the discourse of bodily desire, pleasure, and trauma emerges indirectly from the juxtaposition and conflation of sources. Huot's new book focuses on Guillaume de Lorris's use of the Ovidian corpus, and on Jean de Meun's dazzling orchestration of allusions to a wider range of Latin writers: principally Ovid, Boethius, and Virgil, but also including John of Salisbury and Alain de Lille. In both parts of the Rose , poetic allegory is a language that can express the unspeakable and the ineffable.