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Author:

Preston, Carrie J.

Title:

Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance / Carrie J. Preston.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The solo's origins: monodramas, attitudes, dramatic monologues -- Posing modernism: Delsartism in modern dance and silent film -- Positioning genre: the dramatic monologue in cultures of recitation -- The motor in the soul: Isadora Duncan's solo dance -- Ritualized reception: H.D.'s antimodernist poetics and cinematics.

Series:

Modernist literature & culture

ISBN:

0199766266 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199766260 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709682870

LCCN:

2011014568

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)