num_pages: 263
description: Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual.
language: English
title: Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance
titlecomplete: Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance
publisher: Rutgers University Press