Gendering bodies/performing art : dance and literature in early-twentieth-century culture

Gendering bodies/performing art : dance and literature in early-twentieth-century culture / Amy Koritz.

Author/creator	Koritz, Amy, 1955-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1995.
Description	x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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.

Contents	Moving violations : dance in the London music hall -- The dancer and woman's place : Maud Allan and Isadora Duncan -- The symbolist dancer : the performance aesthetics of Isadora Duncan, Arthur Symons, and Edward Gordon Craig -- Oscar Wilde's Salomé : rewriting the fatal woman -- Dance and gender in Yeats's early plays for dancers -- The aesthetics of control : G.B. Shaw and the performer -- Usurping high culture : the Russian Ballet, I -- Disappearing acts : ideology and the performer in T.S. Eliot's early criticism -- Massine and modernism : the Russian Ballet, II.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	95004350
ISBN	0472106163 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR478.D35 K67 1995	✔ Available	Place Hold