Bodies of the text : dance as theory, literature as dance / edited by Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1995.Description: xiii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813521262 (cloth)
  • 9780813521268 (cloth)
  • 0813521270 (pbk.)
  • 9780813521275 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.809 GOE
LOC classification:
  • GV1600 .B63 1995
Contents:
Introduction: Movement Movements / Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Reading Dance as Text : Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- Samba: the body articulate / Barbara Browning -- Flaming closets / Michael Moon -- Reading Dance in Texts : Unrest and Uncle Tom: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Last supper at Uncle Tom's cabin/The promised land / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Douglas Fairbanks: thief of the Ballets Russes / Gaylyn Studlar -- "A world without collisions" : ballroom dance in Athol Fugard's "MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys / J. Ellen Gainor -- Dance in Theories of Writing : Choreographies / Jacques Derrida and Christie V. McDonald -- Incalculable choreographies : the dance practice of Marie Chouinard / Ann Cooper Albright -- Force and form in Faulkner's Light in August / Ellen W. Goellner -- Reading Writing About Dance : Mimique / Mark Franko -- Stéphane Mallarmé, Loie Fuller, and the theater of femininity / Felicia McCarren -- Textual evidances / Susan L. Foster.
Summary: "Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual." -- Book cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Movement Movements / Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Reading Dance as Text : Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- Samba: the body articulate / Barbara Browning -- Flaming closets / Michael Moon -- Reading Dance in Texts : Unrest and Uncle Tom: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Last supper at Uncle Tom's cabin/The promised land / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Douglas Fairbanks: thief of the Ballets Russes / Gaylyn Studlar -- "A world without collisions" : ballroom dance in Athol Fugard's "MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys / J. Ellen Gainor -- Dance in Theories of Writing : Choreographies / Jacques Derrida and Christie V. McDonald -- Incalculable choreographies : the dance practice of Marie Chouinard / Ann Cooper Albright -- Force and form in Faulkner's Light in August / Ellen W. Goellner -- Reading Writing About Dance : Mimique / Mark Franko -- Stéphane Mallarmé, Loie Fuller, and the theater of femininity / Felicia McCarren -- Textual evidances / Susan L. Foster.

"Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual." -- Book cover

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