Preston, Carrie J.

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.


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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.