Modernism'S Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature And Culture)

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: Carrie J. Preston
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 374 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199384584
• | ISBN-13: 9780199384587