Modernism's mythic pose gender, genre, solo performance - Preston, Carrie J.; American Council of Learned Societies (Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: American poetry -- 20th Century -- History and criticism; Dance -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Modernism (literature) -- United States; Modernism (Art) -- United States; American literature -- Classical influences; Art, Modern -- Classical influences