Modernism's Mythic Pose

Carrie J. Preston is Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.

Series Editors' Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. ; I. Modern, Antimodern, and Mythic Posing ; II. Gendered Identity and Embodiment ; III. Biblical Typology and Classical Ritual ; IV. Solo Genres ; V. Modernist Kinaesthetics ; Chapter 1. The Solo's Origins: Monodramas, Attitudes, Dramatic Monologues ; I. Galatea's Reach: Gestures of the Monodrama ; II. Veiled Motions: Emma Lyon Hamilton's Attitude ; III. Goethe's Proserpina and Later Posers ; IV. Barrett Browning: Naming "Aeschylus" and "The Virgin Mary" ; V. Types and Housewives in Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster ; Chapter 2. Posing Modernism: Delsartism in Modern Dance and Silent Film ; I. Delsarte's Aesthetics of the Attitude ; II. Disseminating Delsarte ; III. Performing Delsartism: Genevieve Stebbins and the Early Motions of Modern Dance ; IV. Performing Delsartism (Take Two): Denishawn and Hollywood ; V. The Russian Delsarte: Kuleshov and Film Montage ; Chapter 3. Positioning Genre: The Dramatic Monologue in Cultures of Recitation ; I. Expression, Recitation, and Literary Interpretation ; II. Charlotte Mew: The Magdalene in "Madeleine in Church" ; III. T. S. Eliot's "Magus": Impersonality, Objective Correlative, and Mythical Method ; IV. Chautauquas, "Sextus Propertius," and Ezra Pound's History ; V. Amy Lowell's Polyphonic Emma Lyon Hamilton ; Chapter 4. The Motor in the Soul: Isadora Duncan's Solo Dance ; I. The Shock of Solo Expression ; II. The Proto-Motor: Duncan and Delsartean Posing ; III. The Joints of Modernism: Conjunctures of Materialism and Metaphysics ; IV. The Multiplied Body of the Motor ; V. Motorized Propulsion and Modernist Ritual ; VI. Repetitions of the Motor: Will and Spontaneity ; VII. The Weight of a Thigh and the New Woman of (Anti)Modernism ; Chapter 5. Ritualized Reception: H.D.'s Antimodernist Poetics and Cinematics ; I. Imagism Unstuck: H.D.'s Dissent and Pound's Revision ; II. Stepping from Stone: Dramatic Monologues of The God ; The Ritual Chorus and a Soloist's Suspicion in Ion and "The Dancer" ; IV. Types of Participation: H.D.'s Film Essays and Reviews ; V. H.D.'s Attitudes on Film ; VI. Montage, Technology for the Soul ; VII. The Soloists of Trilogy ; Afterword. Post-Antimodernism