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Author(s): Carrie J. Preston
ISBN(s): 9780199766260, 0199766266
Edition: 1
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Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199766266 
ISBN 13: 9780199766260
Author: Carrie J Preston

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 antimodern-classicism 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. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the “new,” made ancient figures speak in the “old” genre of the dramatic monologue and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism’s hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance star, and H.D. as poet and film actor. Preston’s interdisciplinary engagement with performance, poetics, modern dance, and silent film demonstrates that studies of modernism often overemphasize breaks with the past. Modernism also posed myth in an ambivalent relationship to modernity, a halt in the march of progress that could function as escapism, skeptical critique, or a figure for the death of gods and civilizations.

Modernism s Mythic Pose Gender Genre Solo Performance 1st Table of contents:

I. Modern, Antimodern, and Mythic Posing

II. Gendered Identity and Embodiment

III. Biblical Typology and Classical Ritual

IV. Solo Genres

V. Modernist Kinesthetics

1. The Solo’s Origins: Monodramas, Attitudes, Dramatic Monologues

    1.1 Galatea’s Reach: Gestures of the Monodrama
    1.2 Veiled Motions: Emma Lyon Hamilton’s Attitude
    1.3 Goethe’s Proserpina and Later Posers
    1.4 Barrett Browning: Naming “Aeschylus” and “The Virgin Mary . . .”
    1.5 Types and Housewives in Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster

2. Posing Modernism: Delsartism in Modern Dance and Silent Film

    2.1 Delsarte’s Aesthetics of the Attitude
    2.2 Disseminating Delsarte
    2.3 Performing Delsartism: Genevieve Stebbins and the Early Motions of Modern Dance
    2.4 Performing Delsartism (Take Two): Denishawn and Hollywood
    2.5 The Russian Delsarte: Kuleshov and Film Montage

3. Positioning Genre: The Dramatic Monologue in Cultures of Recitation

    3.1 Expression, Recitation, and Literary Interpretation
    3.2 Charlotte Mew: The Magdalene in “Madeleine in Church”
    3.3 T. S. Eliot’s “Magus”: Impersonality, Objective Correlative, and Mythical Method
    3.4 Chautauquas, “Sextus Propertius,” and Ezra Pound’s History
    3.5 Amy Lowell’s Polyphonic Emma Lyon Hamilton

4. The Motor in the Soul: Isadora Duncan’s Solo Dance

    4.1 The Shock of Solo Expression
    4.2 The Proto-Motor: Duncan and Delsartean Posing
    4.3 The Joints of Early Modernism: Conjunctures of Materialism and Metaphysics
    4.4 The Multiplied Body of the Motor
    4.5 Motorized Propulsion and Modernist Ritual
    4.6 Repetitions of the Motor: Will and Spontaneity
    4.7 The Weight of a Thigh and the “New Woman” of Modernism

5. Ritualized Reception: H.D.’s Antimodern Poetics and Cinematics

    5.1 Imagism Unstuck: H.D.’s Dissent and Pound’s Revision
    5.2 Stepping from Stone: Dramatic Monologues of The God
    5.3 The Ritual Chorus and a Soloist’s Suspicion in Ion and “The Dancer”
    5.4 Types of Participation: H.D.’s Film Essays and Reviews
    5.5 H.D.’s Attitudes on Film
    5.6 Montage, a Classical Technology
    5.7 The Soloists of Trilogy

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