Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-29256-7 (ISBN)
Maria Marcsek-Fuchs is a lecturer of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She studied English and German Studies at the University of Regensburg and completed her Doctorate (PhD) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She also holds a Degree (Diploma) in Choreography from the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden and completed her Dance Studies at the Joffrey Ballet School and the School of American Ballet, New York. Her research interests include Intermediality and Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Popular and Participatory Culture as well as 19th Century Drama. She founded the Tanz-Sport-Theater at the Universität Regensburg and is currently director of the TUBS-Players at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1.Introduction
2.THEORY: Mediality and Literalised Dance
2.1.Definition of Medium
2.2.Literature as Medium
2.2.1.A Semiotic Perspective on Literature
2.2.2.From a Semiotic to a Cultural Perspective on Literature
2.3.Dance as Medium .
2.3.1.General Statements
2.3.2.A Semiotic Perspective on Dance
2.3.2.1.Movement
2.3.2.2.Time
2.3.2.3.Space
2.3.3.From a Semiotic through a Cultural
to an Intermedial Perspective on Dance
2.3.3.1.Dance Genres as Markers of
Class, National Identity, and Gender
2.3.3.2.The Body and Signification .
3.TYPOLOGY: Literalised Dance as Intermedial Encounter
3.1.Intermediality as a Concept
3.2.Toward a Typology of Literalised Dance
3.2.1.A Semiotic Approach
3.2.1.1.Extra-compositional Intermediality
3.2.1.2.Intra-compositional Intermediality
3.2.2.A Cultural Approach
3.2.2.1.Literalised Dance as a
Platform for Cultural Discourse .
3.2.2.2.Representations of Dance Culture
in Poetry and Caricature
4.CASE STUDIES: Literalised Dance in British Drama
4.1.Dance in British Drama
from the Renaissance to the 18th Century
4.1.1.Plurimediality in Renaissance Masques—
Dance as Allegory of Order: Jonson’s Hymenaei and
Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Jonson’s Pleasure
Reconciled to Virtue, Milton’s Comus
4.1.2.Intermedial Reference and Cultural Ridicule
in Restoration and 18th Century Comedy:
Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing Master,
Sheridan’s The Rivals
4.2.Dance in British Drama of the 19th Century
4.2.1.Popular Literature and the Waltz
4.2.1.1.The Waltz: A Public Scandal and
its Poetic Representations
4.2.1.2.The Waltz in 19th Century
‘Illegitimate’ Drama
4.2.2.Elitist Drama and Modern Dance
4.2.2.1.Presence through Absence:
Oscar Wilde’s Salome
4.2.2.2.The Revolution of Modernism:
Yeats and Modern Dance 5.Conclusion
Works Cited
List of Illustrations
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.2.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Intermediality ; 8 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 471 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-29256-X / 900429256X |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-29256-7 / 9789004292567 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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