Gendering bodies/performing art
Subtitle: dance and literature in early-twentieth-century British culture
By: Amy Koritz.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Dance in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Dance -- England -- History; Symbolism (Literary movement) -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moving violations : dance in the London music hall; title: The dancer and woman's place : Maud Allan and Isadora Duncan; title: The symbolist dancer : the performance aesthetics of Isadora Duncan, Arthur Symons, and Edward Gordon Craig; title: Oscar Wilde's Salomé : rewriting the fatal woman; title: Dance and gender in Yeats's early plays for dancers; title: The aesthetics of control : G.B. Shaw and the performer; title: Usurping high culture : the Russian Ballet, I; title: Disappearing acts : ideology and the performer in T.S. Eliot's early criticism; title: Massine and modernism : the Russian Ballet, II.