Modernism's mythic pose gender, genre, solo performance / [electronic resource] :
Carrie J. Preston.
- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Modernist literature & culture .
- Modernist literature & culture. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The solo's origins: monodramas, attitudes, dramatic monologues -- Posing modernism: Delsartism in modern dance and silent f ilm -- Positioning genre: the dramatic monologue in cultures of recitat ion -- The motor in the soul: Isadora Duncan's solo dance -- Ritualized reception: H.D.'s antimodernist poetics and cinematics.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
American poetry-- History and criticism.-- 20th Century Dance-- History-- United States-- 19th century. Modernism (literature)-- United States. Modernism (Art)-- United States. American literature-- Classical influences. Art, Modern-- Classical influences.