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Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination

Salome's Dance after 1890

Megan Girdwood

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English
Edinburgh University Press
31 August 2021
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. Loe 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-siecle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   535g
ISBN:   9781474481625
ISBN 10:   1474481620
Series:   Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Megan Girdwood is Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, 1870-1945 at Durham University. She has published work in journals including Modernist Cultures, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Irish Studies Review, and The Cambridge Quarterly. Her monograph, Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination, is shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize 2022.

Reviews for Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome's Dance after 1890

This insightful study places Salom� at the centre of modernist considerations of dance. Exploring a diverse array of contexts beginning with the fin de si�cle, Girdwood captures the way in which the veiled figure of Salom� has engendered multiple meanings through representations of the moving body in twentieth-century writing.--Susan Jones, University of Oxford


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