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Lucidly written and solidly argued, Modernism's Mythic Pose excavates a fascinating nist genealogy of modernism.

Lucidly written and solidly argued, Modernism's Mythic Pose excavates a fascinating nist genealogy of modernism. -Laura Winkiel, author of Modernism, Race, and Manifestos.

Preston Carrie J. (EN). The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernisms Mythic Pose argues that a strain of m permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology. The touchstone of Prestons study is Delsartism-the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue-posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development.

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Article · April 2013 with 38 Reads. How we measure 'reads'. As late nineteenth-century culture saw itself transformed by the emergence of new media, celebrated Dutch writer Multatuli (1820-1887) too was radically reinventing himself. In 1877, he irrevocably shifted his activities from writing to public speaking. Being the first device that could capture, store and replay sounds, this new medium posed a multi-pronged challenge to literature.

Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of m permeates modernist . Series: Modernist Literature and Culture.

Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of m permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology. The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism-the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue-posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting theorist François Delsarte and largely organized by women, Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender.

Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature and Culture) The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of m permeates modernis. Modernist Literature & Culture. Oxford University Press, USA.

Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance was released in Oxford University . I teach courses on modern drama and performance, feminist, gender, and queer theory, and modernist literature and culture

Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance was released in Oxford University Press’s Modernist Literature and Culture Series in 2011 and received the De La Torre Bueno Prize in dance studies. I teach courses on modern drama and performance, feminist, gender, and queer theory, and modernist literature and culture. I am the humanist on the teaching team for WGS 101 An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, the interdisciplinary gateway course for the WGS minor. I also teach the required course for the Graduate Certificate in WGS: Theories and Methods in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Modernism's Mythic Pose. Gender, Genre, Solo Performance. Modernist Literature and Culture. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of m permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.

Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance by Carrie J. Preston.